Stupidity, Genetic?!?

[FAKrogoth]

Oh shut up. It's been perfectly obvious for many, many years that both heritage and experience affect overall intelligence. For example, people who grew up with little or poor schooling are usually unable to learn easily. On the other hand, twins, even when reared separately, are quite alike in thinking patterns (you sometimes have to look for quite a while to see it, though - I know a set of twins who almost never act the same way together, but a bit of phase shift accounts perfectly for this).

Anyone who refuses to acknowledge that either nature or nurture has an impact is being intentionally blind. Exactly which areas each will affect is still up for debate and investigation, though.


As some sort of proof of the genetics of intelligence, I want to be an electrical engineer. My father is a chemical engineer. My paternal half-brother is working on his PhD in Computer Science. One related uncle an electrical engineer. Both grandfathers were electrical engineers. Do you see a pattern of thinking modes?