"IQ is very real and there from birth and cant be grown or decreased or taught or culturalized."
I find it useful to think of IQ as a rubberband. It's plastic enough to be stretched or compressed up or down within a fairly narrow spectrum, but it will break when stretched beyond its capacity.
Diet, such as one rich in iodine, for instance, is known to add up to a full standard deviation to an individual's IQ. Folate when ingested by a pregnant mother is also proven to be beneficial to the unborn child's IQ, as is a diet high in Omega 3 acids from fish.
Intellectual stimulation in early childhood can also increase a child's IQ, which is probably why public schools are so horrible today.
My point being that yes, IQ is absolutely genetic but the expression can be stifled or enhanced by outside factors, which is why we need to do everything we can as a society to help the lower end of the bell curve so we don't descend into complete idiocracy (almost there now).
Children have a million questions about the world every day (they're new around here) but if all they're met with is exhausted parents coming home after a long work day, they will never be stimulated sufficiently to develop their full intellectual potential early on, which shows up in an IQ test.
"IQ is very real and there from birth and cant be grown or decreased or taught or culturalized."
I find it useful to think of IQ as a rubberband. It's plastic enough to be stretched or compressed up or down within a fairly narrow spectrum, but it will break when stretched beyond its capacity.
Diet, such as one rich in iodine, for instance, is known to add up to a full standard deviation to an individual's IQ. Folate when ingested by a pregnant mother is also proven to be beneficial to the unborn child's IQ, as is a diet high in Omega 3 acids from fish.
Intellectual stimulation in early childhood can also increase a child's IQ, which is probably why public schools are so horrible today.
My point being that yes, IQ is absolutely genetic but the expression can be stifled or enhanced by outside factors, which is why we need to do everything we can as a society to help the lower end of the bell curve so we don't descend into complete idiocracy (almost there now).
Absolutely.
Children have a million questions about the world every day (they're new around here) but if all they're met with is exhausted parents coming home after a long work day, they will never be stimulated sufficiently to develop their full intellectual potential early on, which shows up in an IQ test.