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Yes, it is. But not in all cases.

tizzdi:
this is actually my undergraduate thesis...did something similar predicting students academic performance based on socioeconomic and demographic and environmental factors

Would you mind sharing your findings with the public? I'm particularly interested in knowing what you discovered...as whilst there is a long held belief that these factors play a role, no one to be the best of my knowledge has been able to quantify the extent to which they play a role.

Its hereditary, I got mine from my dad

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Na wa o! After 3 years, this my post reach front page! Beans go must done...whether you use gas cooker, stove or firewood.

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ola33t:
Op sef .

That means the boy striking out posts also inherited it.

2016 thread.

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tukdi:
Op, tankew 4 this wonderful write up


This is front page worthy!


Based on the small power vested in me by seun,


I therefore, command lalasticlala to take this thread to the promised land!

Thus sayeth you. And it was done.
I like this role of a judge. Please also command Lala to reduce or stop BB news & other cleavage related topics

Yes, likewise foolishness and stupidity.

meobizy:
Intelligence is not hereditary and is teachable. The problem we have in this country is parents (and sadly teachers) assume a child is either smart or dull. As such they don't bother to imbibe in kids the skills they can use to excel book-wise and leave them to their own devices.

Books-smart is not a true form of intelligence. Intelligence in its rawest form is knowing when one is hungry and acting on the impulse. It is as simple as that. Man has only managed to complicate the simple just like we do with every other thing. Any organism which gets hungry can learn tricks. Check around for animals humans have domesticated, every trick we teach them is forced using their desire for food.

"" You're absolutely right according to definition of intelligence in dictionaries the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
"an eminent man of great intelligence"
synonyms: intellectual/mental capacity, intellect, mind, brain, brains, brainpower, powers of reasoning, judgement, reason, reasoning, understanding, comprehension, acumen, wit, sense, insight, perceptiveness, perception, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, penetration, discernment, sharpness, quickness of mind, quick-wittedness, smartness, canniness, astuteness, intuition, acuity, alertness, cleverness, brilliance, aptness, ability, giftedness, talent, braininess"" It's natural not hereditary.

donbenedict:
No I don't think so, if you don't read, you won't pass. Knowledge isn't inherited but acquired

This is about intelligence and not knowledge. It has been proven over and over again. Intelligence is hereditary. Google is your friend. Do some research.

Freiden:
This is about intelligence and not knowledge. It has been proven over and over again. Intelligence is hereditary. Google is your friend. Do some research.

bro it's about knowledge sir, you use your intelligence to acquire knowledge and apply it.

sinaj:
knowledge is quite different from intelligence

Yes knowledge is acquired while intelligence is inherited.

port Harcourt last born... Are you still in port Harcourt?

Rapmoney:
Na wa o! After 3 years, this my post reach front page! Beans go must done...whether you use gas cooker, stove or firewood.

Me sef see am I shock

sinaj:
knowledge is quite different from intelligence

Yes knowledge is acquired while intelligence is inherited.

No it is not, the only thing we inherited are the genes responsible for ability to be intelligent! We all inherited the genes, no lie but that one is going to be intelligent or knowledgeable depends on oneself! It’s not about hereditary at all!

Intelligence is the state of the mind not by inheritance

This is an absolute truth.

There are more genes of intelligence on the X chromosome than on the Y and this is significant for male children. Intelligence just like any other trait is inherited from the parents. The trait here could actually be the ability to acquire intelligence because environmental factors contribute immensely to intelligence, depends on how you may want to define intelligence.

For instance, if an unintelligent male (XY) crosses a genius female (XX), with each 'donating' one chromosome to their offspring and they have a boy (XY) and a girl (XX). For the boy child (XY), it is certain that the X chromosome is from the mother so he will have more genes of intelligence from the mother. Note, that there are also genes of intelligence on the Y chromosome only significantly lesser than that of the X.

For the girl child (XX), both X chromosomes come from each parent, so she will have theoretically 50:50 share of genes of intelligence from each parent. If she turns out intelligent, it is the mother's X working, if she turns out unintelligent it's the father's full X working, if she's average a hybrid...but the boy would be smarter than his sister in theory.

To test this, look at a family in which the girl child is way smarter than the boy child -with the assumption that they had identical exposure, experiences and desire to learn- You will find that the father is likely to be the more intelligent parent, although even hypothetically, you cannot be close to 70% certainty. But if the boy is way more intelligent than his sister, it is certain that the boy is intelligent because of his mother. The latter is more likely to be observed in real life.

To cut the long story short, If you are an intelligent man don't marry an unintelligent woman for the sake of your unborn male children because they will reason like their mother . The girls will be fine. Also, for a woman that is intelligent, you can sleep rest assured that your children will get equal share of your genes of intelligence even if you decide to marry an ode . If all the children turn out to be unintelligent, don't worry, it's the father's doing . Unintelligent women in contrast, have it real bad compared with unintelligent men for the sake of their children's intelligence.

**Disclaimer: There is a lot of scientific truth here and also a number of assumptions, but it's not this straightforward. The scenarios and suggestions are unverified and solely based on my analysis. Follow or teach at your own risk.

Despite all the humour,it is easy to know that you're learned!

Collenshy2020:
Rapmoney, does it mean if kemi who was once upon a time an olosho, that when she get married one of her daughter bumi might have the intelligence of an olosho?
However, if tunde who was once an agbero and later on retired, that one of he's son femi might have the duggedness of an agbero.

You are mixing it up. kemi and tunde being an olosho and agbero is due to the environment, bad influence and lack of attention from parents. they are some olosho and abgero that hv smart gene in them, but due to environment and kind of frens they keep, they lose track.

I know a twin that both got first class in mathematics from the university of Nigeria this year.

Classic evidence.

The ability to make smart decision can't be through inheritance we have some kids who are smart in giving solution to what their parent can't solve.

DanielGb:
I believe too that love should not be the only reason. Intelligence is one. He/She star or glory matters too. Some people are empty o. As for me, i make sure I take emotions aside before making decision.

@OP: What you said is true. Intelligence is hereditary. There are people who didn't have enough of schooling yet they are extra smart.

This is why I use to respect some theives. It takes a smart guy to profit from stealing and 419. Including Politicians.

Most Nigerians are intelligent. (75%). If not we won't be killing them out there. Nigerians are one of the intelligently best mammals in the world.

Meanwhile, anybody can acquire knowledge. But, Too much knowledge self dey give headache and brings worry. I prefer to use my brain and imagination.

Above all, it takes God to make the correct matching.

Sadly, you're not all that correct. We are only greedy and look for ways to enrich our pocket. True intelligence lies with those that discover ideas, theories, inventions to move mankind (not just themselves) forward. Ever wondered most Nobel Laureates are not black?

Intelligence is heriditary, but it's all useless in an environment that doesn't support it. One can be genetically predisposed to understand complex analytics but the wrong environment stunts his development.

Success is 99% inspiration and 1% inspiration. Yes there is natural intelligence which is the initiator of all human profound discovery, however Intelligence not cultivated can lie fallow, on the other hand intelligence cultivated but not properly channeled cannot yield maximum result. In a nutshell IQ is just like system RAM or In-built or detachable phone memory, they come in different sizes, the bigger the memory the faster the processing speed and time and of course the better, that's why some student can flip through pages of their note and viola it's all stocked their, while some read night and day before they can assimilate. This is not a call to mediocrity as system or phone memory can be upgraded if not already configured to a certain limit. However what education does is simple, if you are supposedly at a worse level of IQ it will make you good, if at a good IQ level it makes you better, and if better it can make you best and sometimes supersonic. These are people who find it extremely easy to understand complex life formations and processes, they end up as researchers, scientist and inventors. That's why not all inventions or scientific breakthrough are from the devil as many are won't to think, science therefore not opposed to religion as scripted in Martin Luther's postulations on religion and science.

GeniusDavid:
Intelligence is heriditary, but it's all useless in an environment that doesn't support it. One can be genetically predisposed to understand complex analytics but the wrong environment stunts his development.

True...like the way the nigerian environment stunts our growth. but once we are outside we start making strides

meobizy:
Intelligence is not hereditary and is teachable. The problem we have in this country is parents (and sadly teachers) assume a child is either smart or dull. As such they don't bother to imbibe in kids the skills they can use to excel book-wise and leave them to their own devices.

Books-smart is not a true form of intelligence. Intelligence in its rawest form is knowing when one is hungry and acting on the impulse. It is as simple as that. Man has only managed to complicate the simple just like we do with every other thing. Any organism which gets hungry can learn tricks. Check around for animals humans have domesticated, every trick we teach them is forced using their desire for food.

GBAM!

SenecaTheYonger:
Sadly, you're not all that correct. We are only greedy and look for ways to enrich our pocket. True intelligence lies with those that discover ideas, theories, inventions to move mankind (not just themselves) forward. Ever wondered most Nobel Laureates are not black?

Because it’s not a black award. How many Nobel Laureates are Asian? You talk down on black people for what? See your level of intelligence sef.

meobizy:
Intelligence is not hereditary and is teachable. The problem we have in this country is parents (and sadly teachers) assume a child is either smart or dull. As such they don't bother to imbibe in kids the skills they can use to excel book-wise and leave them to their own devices.

Books-smart is not a true form of intelligence. Intelligence in its rawest form is knowing when one is hungry and acting on the impulse. It is as simple as that. Man has only managed to complicate the simple just like we do with every other thing. Any organism which gets hungry can learn tricks. Check around for animals humans have domesticated, every trick we teach them is forced using their desire for food.

i wish someone told me this 10years ago.
i just got to know this 2years ago after finishing uni. tho i graduated with 2.1, if i had this knowledge i would be a first-class graduate.

academic intelligence as far as I'm concerned is just a function of your habits. not your star, inanimate things, village people, size of the head, genes. This backward knowledge alone can make someone not maximize their true potential in life. who knows maybe i would have been a pilot by now but the thought that i was not smart enough -judging from sec school results- killed those dreams.

it's sad that something as important as this can be misconstrued to this level.

baby124:
Because it’s not a black award. How many Nobel Laureates are Asian? You talk down on black people for what? See your level of intelligence sef.

hahahahaha he say na white man award. hahahahahahahaha lwkm oo Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian Nobel prize winner in 1913. Five Asians received the Nobel Prize in 2014 alone, and many more in-between. Even in this technological day, you still make this kind of incorrect statement. Can't use the internet, but he talks about intelligence. The thing is that, you can't use affrimative action to win a Nobel prize, because your works and discoveries are going to pass through the highest standard of scrutiny.

Here's lies the big question,what is the average intelligence of Nigerians?

Do we have more dumb or smart people?

Could this be the reason why we are not politically aware and show no signs of any collective intelligence.

sinaj:
knowledge is quite different from intelligence

Yes knowledge is acquired while intelligence is inherited.

Have you heard of instances where maybe after an accident, a person turned genius?

Intelligence may not always be inherited

Genetics has a fair influence but so does early-life experience, home environment, diet, personal motivation and the type of teaching one responds to

What you've referred to as "inheritance" I feel is more home environment and parental encouragement. If a child is surrounded by stimulating materials and is urged on by their caregiver to explore and seek knowledge, they are more likely to do so.

If you come from a family where people are ridiculed for reading too much or where you are not encouraged to think for yourself, you are more likely to neglect it since you don't want to be victimised by your own parents, this is probably why you observed some kinds of ignorant attitudes or uncouth behaviours from the parents being replicated in their wards.

This is also why you get professors from families who don't particularly value schooling and you get people from highly educated homes who just don't seem to "grab book". It's a multi-factorial issue

Also there are different types of intelligence, a child may not be too sharp with a calculator but may know just the right way to comfort his crying sibling, another may not be great with books but may be great at manipulating others to his advantage, a third still may be at the top of the class but struggles to connect well with others or to make wise life decisions.

Life itself and its systems contain a certain amount of redundancy, it's easier to be skilled and intelligent in at least one area of your life than it is to be totally "dumb". If you are bad in one you can still be good in another one. A family comprised of plenty of so-called "dumb" people is probably suffering from low-self esteem or a wrong approach to issues rather than an inherited low intelligence.

Genes that code for certain neurones or synaptic proteins can be wrongly transcribed or developmental complications can occur in the womb, leading to a chronic type of low intelligence referred to as a learning disability...but this is leaning more towards disease than the average low-intelligence student seen in class .

Conversely, certain genetic and developmental accidents have given rise to "child geniuses" who are the source of simultaneous joy, pride, worry and frustration for their parents.

There's also the issue of class which is very important, upper-class elites produce educational systems that only educate people up to a certain level and in a particular way, most countries need a certain amount of so-called "dumb population" to manipulate so that the upper-class will remain in power. Most human beings are not exposed to the type of information that we really need to know, in fact millions of people worldwide are not even literate up to primary school level so their potential is never properly realised. They may be intelligent but only in a way that keeps them alive, not in a way that elevates them in society or in terms of experiencing certain echelons.

In America and the UK where people have basic amenities that we have been dreaming of for decades, you will still see entire families of people living below the poverty line, this is partly due to an inculcated negative attitude towards learning and self-improvement, even though light is always on, water is piped and school is free. In fact society is purposely arranged that way, grouping poor people together in slums and festering a feeling of hopelessness so that you won't have the means, the brain or the guts to question your masters, choosing instead to engage in complicated and fruitless gang wars. Even those gangsters display a certain amount of cleverness in evading the law, profiting from contraband goods and living to fight another day.

By the way I am framing my comment around acquired knowledge because it is a specific measure of intelligence,they are linked and OP drew his thought from it due to his experience as a teacher.

The ability to apply acquired knowledge to a task and succeed in that task is the essence of being considered intelligent.

There are more genes of intelligence on the X chromosome than on the Y and this is significant for male children. Intelligence just like any other trait is inherited from the parents. The trait here could actually be the ability to acquire intelligence because environmental factors contribute immensely to intelligence, depends on how you may want to define intelligence.

For instance, if an unintelligent male (XY) crosses a genius female (XX), with each 'donating' one chromosome to their offspring and they have a boy (XY) and a girl (XX). For the boy child (XY), it is certain that the X chromosome is from the mother so he will have more genes of intelligence from the mother. Note, that there are also genes of intelligence on the Y chromosome only significantly lesser than that of the X.

For the girl child (XX), both X chromosomes come from each parent, so she will have theoretically 50:50 share of genes of intelligence from each parent. If she turns out intelligent, it is the mother's X working, if she turns out unintelligent it's the father's full X working, if she's average a hybrid...but the boy would be smarter than his sister in theory.

To test this, look at a family in which the girl child is way smarter than the boy child -with the assumption that they had identical exposure, experiences and desire to learn- You will find that the father is likely to be the more intelligent parent, although even hypothetically, you cannot be close to 70% certainty. But if the boy is way more intelligent than his sister, it is certain that the boy is intelligent because of his mother. The latter is more likely to be observed in real life.

To cut the long story short, If you are an intelligent man don't marry an unintelligent woman for the sake of your unborn male children because they will reason like their mother . The girls will be fine. Also, for a woman that is intelligent, you can sleep rest assured that your children will get equal share of your genes of intelligence even if you decide to marry an ode . If all the children turn out to be unintelligent, don't worry, it's the father's doing . Unintelligent women in contrast, have it real bad compared with unintelligent men for the sake of their children's intelligence.

**Disclaimer: There is a lot of scientific truth here and also a number of assumptions, but it's not this straightforward. The scenarios and suggestions are unverified and solely based on my analysis. Follow or teach at your own risk.

Please name whatever it is you drink, the bill is on me.
I knew my theory was correct, but since my field is core engineering, I couldn't really get enough time to works on my theory.


Another theory on this intelligence question, I'm thinking of working on and probably write a paper on this one day just for fun.

1.The genes contain every single information about an individual and I also noticed that most times last borns though spoilt, display a higher level of intelligence than their elder siblings, probably because the genes/chromosomes of the parents at a later age have gained more intelligence and wisdom which was also stored in their genes than when they had their first kids.

2.There's also the question of "late bloomers". These guys appear to be totally dumb while growing up only to turn into freaking geniuses say in their mid-twenties, and late thirties. While others highly brillant as kids but grow up to be dumbos.What made their intelligence suddenly spike up or take a downward slide?