BluntBoy:
Ziggylady minus tribalism would make a perfect match for me as regards intelligent children.

Which kain talk be dis now?..i dont even know where to start responding..

see BOBO

Ziggylady:




Which kain talk be dis now?..i dont even know where to start responding..

It demands no response. It is a perfect post

BluntBoy:


It demands no response. It is a perfect post

Stuppid actually

nijabazaar:
Intelligence is not inherited.....this is super fake.

Einstein gave birth to a schizophrenic and a normal son. Both aint geniuses

Micheal Jackson children aint prodigious even though their father x super talented.

Non of Bill gates children is a veritable programmer

...Michael kids are not his, they were from donors....And you are confusing intelligence for talent... Because Bill Gates was good at programming doesn't mean programming was in his blood and been transferred to his kids, moreover Gates was neccessarily not the brains behind Microsoft in the technical aspect, he was the brains of the business not the programming.... And the report says Mothers transfers the intelligence, so how will a genius Einstein give birth to a genius kids, you should ask who the wife was. Finally schizophrenic kid doesn't mean you ain't intelligent, it means you have a developmental issue....

teebaxy:
Toor, mk I dey find intelligent girl marry

how do u define intelligence...we live in a dynamic world anyway....am sure if asisat oshola and a graduate is brought to u u would pick d former.... let's create a society wer every one can be useful...nobody was born useless it's about hw our environment treats us and hw we fit in....in things fall apart by Achebe unoka was seen as a useless man but in today's world I doubt if he ll be useless...he knew hw to entertain with his flute Even if he couldn't do his farm well

mvem:
...Michael kids are not his, they were from donors....And you are confusing intelligence for talent... Because Bill Gates was good at programming doesn't mean programming was in his blood and been transferred to his kids, moreover Gates was neccessarily not the brains behind Microsoft in the technical aspect, he was the brains of the business not the programming.... And the report says Mothers transfers the intelligence, so how will a genius Einstein give birth to a genius kids, you should ask who the wife was. Finally schizophrenic kid doesn't mean you ain't intelligent, it means you have a developmental issue....

But no research has really proven that intelligence is transferred,.... And acquired talent is a build up of intelligence (innate or learnt).

If we accept that intelligence is transferred we then shouldnt dillydally to accept "The theory of Natural Selection" in its entirety.

nijabazaar:


If you say intelligence is transmutable to offsprings then why then aint we seeing it with prodigous people land their children.

Take for example , Einstein and Mozart.


Or Steve jobs, or Steve Wozniak or Chinua Achebe. These people raised children in near perfect child-enabling environs but their children aint as extraordinary as them....why


I think intelligence is a quotient of environmental factors and not of genes.

If we go the genes angle, then we are inherently buying into Francis Crick's (One of the DNA discoverers) that the reason why Africans cant progress is because they lack it in their genes to do so. He recieved severe backlash for this, all awards save the Nobel prize was stripped from him

oga Achebe pikin na prof of medicine Wat do u say about dat...then explain wer chimamanda adichie got her flair for writing from...let's try to analyze these things...sometimes these findings are overrated

this is crap.if men get their intelligence from women,how come most inventors and great scientist are men.

No wonder we have many dull and low IQ kids around. Most of these brainless Slay Queens rolling out dull children anyhow.

slivertongue:
BUT SOME MOTHERS ARE SUPER DULL, INFACT SOME COUPLES ARE SUPER DULL YET THEIR KIDS ARE EXTRA ORDINARILY intelligent.

There is no way you expect the result to be 100 percent

nijabazaar:
Intelligence is not inherited.....this is super fake.

Einstein gave birth to a schizophrenic and a normal son. Both aint geniuses

Micheal Jackson children aint prodigious even though their father x super talented.

Non of Bill gates children is a veritable programmer

You actually just proved this research right afterall.
According to the research, kids inherit their intelligence from their mum and not their Dad, and all the names you mentioned above are gifted men and not women!

Donjazzy12:

Feminism will destroy you all!

Every day we hear all kinds of news to further reduce the importance of the male gender!

Very soon you will see a scientific research which postulates that men are utterly useless!

These researches are being promoted by feminists and their supporters!

Be smart guys stop promoting this!

Thank you for this piece..
You can even observe how some men are getting all emotional right here over this piece of shitt.

With the every physical and daily evidence of what men have done here on earth, One would still see a woman as a match. hmm..

I need some one to educate me here, Where in history have you heard that a group of the so called super intellectual women come together to build anything without the presence or help of a man..
However, men with average to low IQs can build things on their own without the help of any super intellectual woman..

The armed robbers also inherited from their mother.
Women emancipation. With time they will say men actually came from the ribs of women.

lexy2014:


Are u saying ur dad who was a professor wasn't intelligent?

I’m saying that it’s the best if both worlds ...really the person I wanna Marry doesn’t know I’ve known from day one why

Gerrard59:
This is not breaking news na. It has been for a long time. Children get at least 50% of their intelligence from their mother not father. It constitutes the natural aspect of intelligence which is different from the nurture aspect (environmental factors).

The intelligent 'gene' is on the X chromosome which men don't give during copulation. Women have XX and men XY. We can even say that boys inherit their intelligence from their mothers not fathers. Then again, the mitochondria is inherited from the mother. Though mitochondrial genes might not seem to be genes “for” intelligence, however, brains are huge consumers consumers of metabolic energy (the brain consumes 25% of body glucose) - which is supplied by mitochondria. Better mitochondria are likely to translate to better brain function.

Additionally, if one says his mom wasn't intelligent but her children are, you have to consider the environment the mom grew in and her lineage. Her mom could have been very intelligent. Another factor is that some cases are exceptions not the norm.

That you do not believe the study or such studies doesn't mean there are false. If you disagree, you could conduct yours and publish it for peer review.

so what is the name of this intelligence gene?

nijabazaar:


If you say intelligence is transmutable to offsprings then why then aint we seeing it with prodigous people land their children.

Take for example , Einstein and Mozart.


Or Steve jobs, or Steve Wozniak or Chinua Achebe. These people raised children in near perfect child-enabling environs but their children aint as extraordinary as them....why


I think intelligence is a quotient of environmental factors and not of genes.

If we go the genes angle, then we are inherently buying into Francis Crick's (One of the DNA discoverers) that the reason why Africans cant progress is because they lack it in their genes to do so. He recieved severe backlash for this, all awards save the Nobel prize was stripped from him

how do we know that einstein's kids were actually his? Did they take dna tests?

RTSC:

Nuture and training does not account for all form of intelligence.

We have seen numerous examples of children from deprived, unstable background with brains as hot as fire.

Intelligence is as genetic as it is from nuture. infact, even more so.

these are exceptional cases...base on the topic, we considered that as part of exogenous variables that need to be held constant.

crackhaus:

I like your honesty, your theories are more personal than scientific.
There are equally super-intelligent men married to women with average intelligence who ended up having super-intelligent kids. I guess you may have read about the Lawyer dad whose children are all lawyers, or the Pilot dad whose children are towing the same profession.

This article and others like it on the internet are also 'anecdotal' which is the point i was actually trying to make with my question. None of the writers is a geneticist, biologist, or scientist, and even if we are to assume they are, where did they conduct the research and which journal was it published.

It sounds really good to hear that we inherit intelligence from our mothers because naturally most people are more psychologically & emotionally attached to their mothers than fathers (this is the nurture theory).
This is why its so easy to just believe the hypothesis without bothering to verify the facts, which is exactly what the writers bank on to get people to accept it. Basic reverse psychology at play.

I know that it is not scientific or based on facts. It's just my gut feeling why i said it's anecdotal. If you check those lawyers that their kids followed in their footsteps, you would notice that their wives are also intelligent just might not have followed that profession or choose not to work in the traditional sense of the word. It's a good balance. Intelligence is also not about whatever profession, i know you know that well. Some might say it is a bias but it's working in my husband's family.

Rubbish if not verified.

Funny enough I have ways hoped my daughter grows up to be as smart as my wife...damn my wife is super smart...I hope this research is true..!

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Ziggylady:



Stuppid actually

E ma binu, ma.

kushme:


Thank you for this piece..
You can even observe how some men are getting all emotional right here over this piece of shitt.

With the every physical and daily evidence of what men have done here on earth, One would still see a woman as a match. hmm..

I need some one to educate me here, Where in history have you heard that a group of the so called super intellectual women come together to build anything without the presence or help of a man..
However, men with average to low IQs can build things on their own without the help of any super intellectual woman..

Yeah!

crackhaus:

You repeated everything that has been said by various writers.
Personally, I'm not disagreeing with the study (if ever there was one). I come from a science background, so i have to see the study itself - the name of the scientists who did it, where it was done, when it was done, and most importantly, the citation for the journal that published it.

You can help with a link to this, since you say you've known about it for a long time.

Evangkatsoulis:


so what is the name of this intelligence gene?

Messers, apparently, the study that I have relied for years as an evidence has been trounced by several articles. In summary, the jury is out regarding whether intelligence is inherited or mothers are responsible for the gene.

My bad.

nijabazaar:
Intelligence is not inherited.....this is super fake.

Einstein gave birth to a schizophrenic and a normal son. Both aint geniuses

Micheal Jackson children aint prodigious even though their father x super talented.

Non of Bill gates children is a veritable programmer

your hypothesis just confirmed that it’s true..

obayendo1010:
we quantify intelligent with retentive memory thats wrong my mom can hardly read but her business sense and her problem solving skills is out of this world....

She is actually intelligent! Didn't get d opportunity fr advanced education and all, if she had, u fr no even see d back of her...

Coldfeets:
Chi59 abeg come and see o.

Do you still remember we had this same discussion some time last year, I think?

Really? Now I remember

The only reason why i do not agree with this article is that women are indirectly blamed for daft and low-IQed males

Which is what can be used to qualify 90% of males on Nairaland..

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