Comment by jlawson
5 days ago
Unfortunately, people are born with a certain intellectual capacity and can't be improved beyond that with any amount of training or education. We're largely hitting peoples' capacities already.
We can't educate someone with 80 IQ to be you; we can't educate you (or I) into being Einstein. The same way we can't just train anyone to be an amazing basketball player.
From what I've read, IQ is one of the more heritable traits, but only about 50% of one's intelligence is attributable to one's genes.
That means there are absolutely still massive benefits to be had in trying to ensure that kids grow up in safe, loving homes, with proper amounts of stimulation and enrichment, and are taught with a growth, not a fixed potential mindset.
Sad to say, but your own fixed mindset probably held you back from what you could truly achieve. You don't have to be Einstein to operate on the cutting edge of a field, I think most nobel prize winners have an iq of ~ 120
This is extremely not settled science. Education in fact does improve IQ and we don't know how fixed intelligence is and how it responds to different environmental cues.
Other countries have better outcomes. I doubt it's just because of the genetics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
Modern society benefits a lot from specialization. It's like the dumbest kid in France is still better at French than you.