I mean all the ppl i know who are very smart come from well educated families such as a few freinds of mine his parents are both doctors from stanford uni and his cousin is also very smart and his parents are from john hopkins. and everyone i come across that is very brilliant have well educated parents. so is it all in the genetic code? so what im tryng to say is that if two ppl were very well educated and married had sex and etc then the baby popped out so the chances of the babies iq level would be quiet high right? later on as he progressed to be an adult?
2007-11-25 19:40:24 · 7 answers · asked by rk 3 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Genetics affect intelligence. Also exposure and nurturing the intellect increase intelligence. Intelligence shows up on different tests with different groups as different. i.e. ghetto children from uneducated parents with very little exposure to much will test low on many tests. But when the test is altered specifically for them and their limited experiences, they often test much higher.
Likely some of your friends IQ isn't amazingly high. They have been exposed to a lot of opportunities to develop brain function and had lots of learning opportunities. Someone else could be more intelligent but not appear so because they did not have the opportunity to develop their intelligence.
2007-11-25 19:54:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Inheritance and genetics certainly have a huge impact on how smart a person is, or more importantly for purposes of predicting survival, is not. Having said that, the reason most of the brilliant people you meet have highly educated parents is certainly no accident. People that have advanced education tend to value that education highly, and not only want the same for their offspring, but DEMAND it, whereas the child born to parent who have no education tend to not be pushed as hard to acquire that advanced education. This is sociological and is a huge problem for the lower to lower middle class cast in the US. This is one reason why the poor tend to stay poor over generations despite the opportunity to advance that may be found here. It's not just genetic, that lack of importance that more affluent, highly educated people affix to education for their children is often noticeably absent in poorer communities. Their are many, many other factors that play into this problem as well. So, it's probably a combination of socio-economic factors combined with genetic disposition that conspire to keep uneducated people from acquiring education across generations.
2007-11-25 20:01:28 · answer #2 · answered by abiogeek2 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definitely.
2007-11-25 19:44:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, genetics does have something to do with how smart a person is
BUT
a person can also train himself or herself to become smart
and a lot of it has to do with workhabits
2007-11-25 20:05:40 · answer #4 · answered by lala 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is a strong genetic basis for intelligence. there are also arguments for the nurturing of intelligence, I tend to think it is a combination of genetics and environment that creates people who are capable of using the intelligence they were born with.
2007-11-25 19:44:57 · answer #5 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It accounts for 50%.
2007-11-26 01:34:24 · answer #6 · answered by Susas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes the amount of brain cells increases your intelligence.
2007-11-25 19:43:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋