@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

@robxtom I agree. A lot of people do not, for varying degrees of honest reasons.

You're more likely to inherit physical properties that make you excel at what your father does, provided he teaches you (cultural)

@Zuluzeit totally agree it’s all abt how you frame it to yourself consciously. Most of the time it’s the same for ppl the problem is communicating that with language

@Beth you were exposed to your data as a phoetus, and then for 10 months. After that you were exposed to the impression your dad left in your mom. All that data early in life will effect you.

Brains are physical. You can't play COD on a Commodore 64.

@Beth You can also inherit different growth genes for different areas of the brain, creating what is called "biological affordances". Your brain will seek to resolve the same problem based in its capacity, and if that capacity is similar to your dads, you end up with the same sort of solutions.

Ahh now I understand! Took a few minutes 🙈😂

For instance, if you have a mediocre cerebellum, many sports are ruled out. If you at the same time have a strong frontal cortex, mental exercises will be an affordance. As they result in progress. Therefore traits are often shared, due to the different capacities of the brains involved.

The brain can be a rather confusing subject

Absolutely.

Excluding plasticity, which I don't understand.

The brain is one of the things we still don't really fully understand.

I can english.

Lmao

Plasticity just means that it’s changing and influenced by nature

The connections between neurons change

The human brain as little more than a blank desk without the operating system also known as culture.