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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP:  So if straight IQ is genetic... then when both parents have high IQs, doesn't it make sense that they assume their child will have a high IQ and make educational plans accordingly?     [/quote]

What kind of plans?

With kids, you get what you get.  Two highly intelligent parents may or may not have a highly intelligent child.[/quote]

If straight intelligence is genetic, which is certainly appears to be, then two highly intelligent parents will have a highly intelligent child (barring illness, head injury or gestational issues, of course).

Plans like finding the best educated nanny, the more advanced preschool programs, and saving money for both.   Maybe moving to the best area for the schools prior to the child's birth.

Here's what I am getting at - it just seems to me that highly intelligent parents are seen as pushy or presumptuous when they even try to quietly make plans for their child's future.  [/quote]

To me, the opposite would make sense. [b]Your kid is either going to be smart or not, regardless of the environment you provide[/b] (within reason, of course). Very little of what parents do will change this much. [/quote]

Wrong. IQ is so changeable, and the experiences and environment that bright parents create for their children really affect that. It is nearly impossible to tease out environment vs. genes, and no one had made the case on this thread that it's solely genetics. IQ is partly heritable, but it is influenced by so, so much.[/quote]

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