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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder how many of the "wicked smart" parents with kids "not as smart" are actually "wicked smart". This area has a lot of transplants and people who were extremely smart for their hometown, top of their class, always ahead of everyone else in Booberville, Indiana and grew up internalizing being the smartest kid in the class. Their children are all growing up in an area where everyone is smart and highly educated. A kid who seems OK but not incredibly smart here would stand out back in your original hometown but seem average here. In addition, IQ scores and testing have changed. A high score 20-30-40 years ago would be equivalent to a lower score today.

Its more probable that the children are in the same "smart" range as the parents but the perceptions have simply changed because who you compare against is different. [/quote]

I'm from Indiana and while I suppose I was smart growing up, I certainly didn't grow up internalizing being smartest in the class because no one around me would have cared.  I've lived all over the world in plenty of cities with high concentrations of uber smart, highly educated people and what has struck me the most is how so many people with so much supposed intelligence can be so clueless about what matters in life.

And given how test scores have been inflated, I'd be surprised if a high score years ago would be equivalent to a lower score today.  Filling more steps with more stuff and testing, testing, testing from ever younger ages does not make us smarter than previous generations.  I'd argue the opposite.  [/quote]

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