The was an experiment made by some psych department where they had mice chasing cheese in mazes (I kid you not:-), but as a twist they had two teams of human "helpers" who trained their mice to find the cheese. One team were told that their mice were exceptionally smart, the other that their ones were stupid. The mice were of course picked at random. However, the "smart" group of mice did much better than the stupid... On can speculate if the expectations of the humans "rubbed off" onto the mice and they performed better or worse depending on the "karma" balance being tipped.:-) My point is, we still have no idea what causes intelligence. Actually, no one has even defined IQ in a satisfactory way. One of my favourite quotes (paraphrased) is; "If the devil found himself in God's place, he would find himself to forced to take upon him all of heavens attributes". I believe that everyone has a great capacity for adaptation to our environment, regardless of our native abilities.
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The was an experiment made by some psych department where they had mice chasing cheese in mazes (I kid you not :-), but as a twist they had two teams of human "helpers" who trained their mice to find the cheese. One team were told that their mice were exceptionally smart, the other that their ones were stupid. :-)
The mice were of course picked at random.
However, the "smart" group of mice did much better than the stupid...
On can speculate if the expectations of the humans "rubbed off" onto the mice and they performed better or worse depending on the "karma" balance being tipped.
My point is, we still have no idea what causes intelligence. Actually, no one has even defined IQ in a satisfactory way.
One of my favourite quotes (paraphrased) is; "If the devil found himself in God's place, he would find himself to forced to take upon him all of heavens attributes". I believe that everyone has a great capacity for adaptation to our environment, regardless of our native abilities.