dgmug said:
does it come from parents or does it develop with nurishment of the mind.
Psychologically speaking (I have a degree in it...) initelligence known to be around 50% genetic and 50% envionmental (based on a vast amount of studeies on twins, seperated twins (both geneticall idenitical and not), and looking at fostered children, brothers and sisters, etc. Ranges estimate from 40-60%.
However, since 50% may be genetic, there is a strong corollation. Genetically Intelligent parents may produce genetrically intelligent children who will live in an enriched environment and thus become 'environmentally' intelligent.
The whole nature vs nurture debated has really ended. 50-50 is a rouhgt estimated, with complex ineractions being highly significant proportion.
This tends to lead to a "double whammy" effect. as hinted at above. 'stupid' parents (becuase of genetics) will provide a stupid learning environment, intelligent parents will provide an intelligent learning environment.
This explains the large difference betweet intelligent honest people and chavs, and also explains the outliers who may have clever parents but stupid childredn or vice versa.
hopwever, the term intelligence is entirely vague. Simply crossing the road without dieing requiresa a vast bank of knowledge and intelligent processing of available data.