@Zuluzeit IQ is trying to measure how well someone will function in the US armed forces in 1925

It's a very flawed scale, yes.

Hahaha

Does IQ affect common sense🤔

They're working on it.

No one think that IQ is biological?

Unfortunately no.

@james j not true people who analyze everything are tormented

Genes would be biology.

Sorry didn’t see Maws comment

@robxtom no behavior can be biological. No behavior genes exist.

In a living hell of over analysis

Ofc hormones have a huge impact

@busillis that was my point. If you smart enough to live in a suitable condition but not smart enough to see the issues you will be happy

@robxtom That's been a popularly controversial topic since The Bell Curve came out. Before that, it was mostly limited to specialized academics.

@james j 110% true

Is this true? I definitely feel you can inherit certain traits?

@Beth of course you can. But it is measured in what culture values. Never not biased.

You are born with certain impulses that can shape your personality

You can inherit physical traits that give you a stronger disposition one way or another.

Twin studies are interesting to look at this

But it's almost entirely cultural from that point on.

@Beth what you inherit is neuron growth. Grow-grow-branch. Grow-grow-branch. Or Grow-branch grow-branch. The more branches, the more synapsis (contact between neurons). That is where data is processed. So you inherit data capacity. Nothing else.

To my understanding.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-do-clever-people-do-stupid-things-psychologists-split-link-between-iq-and-no-common-sense-a6921361.html#:~:text=But%20one%20major%20study%20has%20claimed%20to%20prove,could%20make%20them%20appear%20%22silly%22%20in%20social%20situations.

I've noticed that family seem the past cultural tradition...

You learn something new everyday, thank you for explaining

https://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.com/2009/11/clever-sillies-why-high-iq-lack-common.html?m=1

Anecdotally of course

If you're born with a brain for math but never practice math, how can you inherit math skills?

Psychometrics endeavors to exclude personality, behavior, disposition, etc. from its data.

@Zuluzeit what’re you referring to? The Gaussian? That is the bell curve

> @Zuluzeit what’re you referring to? The Gaussian? That is the bell curve
@robxtom The book. Early 90's. It brought the subject to common folk, like ourselves.

There is a particular story about two twins that grew up in separate but similar towns. They ended up living almost the exact same lives down to what they named their dogs . The name of their wives and children

Anecdotal, but I do recall a more broad study being conducted on natives of certain tribes that were isolated from one another for centuries.

I don't recall it off the top of my head.

@robxtom and the authors were on blast to this very day

@Zuluzeit I interpret it as a characteristic of nature which we are a part of for sure

Cosmopolitan by birth liberal by the grace of the dogma of atheism.

@Beth My pleasure

That’s a good point... The reason why I ask is my mum & dad split up when I was 10 months old, I’ve only seen him a couple of times since then. People sometimes tell me I’m quite like him in some ways, that’s why I just assumed it was in the genes... 🤷🏼‍♀️ not my area of expertise as you can see