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[quote=Anonymous]You've heard of regression to the mean, right?

"Regression to the mean, also known as regression toward the mean, was discovered by Sir Francis Galton while he was conducting reporting the heights of 250 parents and their 930 children. Galton calculated the average height for the adults and children and plotted the heights of everyone on a chart. Galton found that the children of parents who were taller than average tended to have children that were taller than average, and the parents who were shorter than average tended to have children who were shorter on average.

However, in instances where the parents were taller than than average, the children tended to be a bit shorter than the parents and in instances where the parents were shorter than average, the children tended to be a bit taller than the parents. In other words, the children of parents with heights that were extremely above or below average had heights that were closer to the average. Galton called this phenomenon regression of the mean ."

OP-  Did you really think that your child would be just as intelligent or more intelligent that two extremely intelligent parents?[/quote]

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