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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was always really baffled by the couples where the guy was a super duper high flyer from an Ivy League school and the second or third trophy wife was very beautiful but not exactly an intellect, and they ended up sending kids to Ivy League schools, all of them were accepted into the gifted program etc.

Given that intellect is largely inherited, it just seemed . . . odd that these dudes would have kids who were more successful than the offspring of two Ivy League educated doctors or two Ivy League educated lawyers, etc.   And even if you believe it's nurture, not nature, it seemed weird that women who watched TV all day and ignored their kids, who didn't pay attention to current events, etc. were producing these "gifted" kids.

It never added up to me.  But now things are starting to make sense.

I was one of those people who would have stood there saying "So Billy got a tennis scholarship?  That's so weird!  We've known them for 20 years and I've never heard them mention tennis!  And he's not on the school team!"  and then I would have decided that I was crazy since none of that made any sense.  Nice to know it's them, not me.[/quote]

Maybe, but doesn't seem relevant.  This guy doesn't have an Ivy degree, but says in the article his wife has multiple Harvard grad degrees--maybe that needs checking, but couldn't help wondering if his Ivy-or-bust attitude went all the way back to choice of spouse.[/quote]

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