2007-03-12 15:51:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
About 12 years ago there was a very controversial book called THE BELL CURVE that studied I.Q. and genius.
They found that between 40% to 80% of a persons I.Q. is genetic. Like eye color or hair color, you get that from your parents.
They also found that between 20% to 60% is the product of your enviornment. If you get good nutrition (for brain growth) and exposure to a stimulating intelectual enviornment, your IQ improves. If you don't get enough to eat, don't get adequate schooling, or wind up in horrible abusive home or grinding Third World poverty, you don't get that boost.
That is just a matter of sheer I.Q. I think there is also a matter of opportunity involved... what you can or can't do with that IQ.
For example, I have a 3 year old daughter that is scary smart. Everyone in my family and my wife's family is smart, we qualify for Mensa, but my daughter is REALLY smart.
Since she was born in the U.S.A. she is going to be able to benifit from the freedom and the school system here. She may go on to be a doctor, or a physicsist, or an engineer, or anything she wants. For all we know she might invent warp drive.
Now, if she had been born in Saudi Arabia, where women aren't allowed to drive cars or go out in public by themselves, what sort of a chance would she have to use her gifts? Just as important, what sort of a chance would the rest of the world have to beneift from her gifts? She would have wound us as the smartest baby making machine in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, never going out of the house and getting beaten every time she showed that she was smarter than her husband. That would have been a criminal use of her tallents and gifts. Even if the smartest person who ever lived was born as a woman in Saudi Arabia, (or Afghanistan, or Iran) the world would never know it. For all we know there was (or is) someone with the capability and gifts to invent warp drive out there right now... but because she is a girl and living in a Moslem country we will never know about her. All the IQ in the world won't help you if the society you live in won't let you learn to read.
So there are three components to genius. One is genetic, one is environmental, and the last one is the society you live in.
2007-03-12 16:12:19 · answer #1 · answered by Larry R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends firstly on your birth (If born dumb learn harder no offense) If your birth went well., it now depends on whether if your parents go "gooogooo gaaagaaa" or hardcore "This is this, That is That, GET IT??!!"
Parenting helps if your parents bought you a PS3 or a dictionary. Sure you got a PS3 and your pro in Halo but that won't help in a spelling bee unless Halo has new learning edition.
2007-03-12 16:03:59 · answer #2 · answered by robert t 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know if u believe in God or not, but its just how we were made, i guess. that's the reason everyone is different and has different talents. some people may be academically strong while others may be physically strong...we all have different strengths and thats what makes us each special...do u think it's possible for everyone to be smart?
2007-03-12 15:58:14 · answer #3 · answered by tigerkween623 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Karma- Depends on what one did in their previous live that get them their talents and gifts in this life. Want to know more about karma and reincarnation. go to harekrishnatemple.c - Read Bhagavad Gita as it is By Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada- tells the purpose of human life and how to get rid of all bad karma and how to become eternally full of knowledge and bliss.
2007-03-12 16:55:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because of genetics and sometimes of the way they were taught by others at a very young age.
2007-03-12 15:55:46 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people get blue eyes, some get brown. Its nothing personal - just a cosmic gene toss
2007-03-12 15:56:49 · answer #6 · answered by freshbliss 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
many times, "geniuses" locate love from the comparable places they meet different "geniuses", merely like, the place dumbs meet different dumbs college chum of pals those with comparable hobbies do see one yet another in many circumstances interior the comparable factors bill + Hillary Clinton
2016-12-14 17:37:14 · answer #7 · answered by parenti 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're smart
2015-05-19 01:53:11 · answer #8 · answered by adam 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the same reason some people are beautiful and some are not...it's just how things go
2007-03-12 15:57:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they have no life.
2007-03-12 16:17:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋