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by hailhash 2536 days ago
Intelligence/smart is the default condition of all children at the time of birth. It’s the non-intelligent parents who drive the intelligence out of them by their own behavior and ignorance
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There’s only so much parents can do (post-birth)...

This is one of my favourite articles ever:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4739500/

> linearly increasing heritability of intelligence from infancy (20%) through adulthood (60%).