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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the biological mother and father both have high IQ’s there is a very good chance the kids will too. And 2-4 points is negligent amount for an IQ test. An IQ if 100 is the 50th percentile rank. An IQ of 105 is the 63rd percentile rank. Once you get into higher iq’s the percentile difference between 5 points is slight. An IQ of 130 is the 98th percentile rank whole an IQ of 135 is the 99th percentile rank. That’s not worth 40,000.

What matters more than a few iq points is drive, attention span, and working memory.

Additionally IQ scores are malleable and can change. Interesting study of teens in Britain showed vía mri and iq tests that while some teens iq is stable other teens can have pretty big changes in IQ. It’s like the old taxi drivers in London who studied for “the knowledge” - they had to essentially remember a map of London in their head to get a taxi license. Their spatial iq increased after intensive studying for a extended period of time. [/quote] Well there is still regression to the mean. So the couples with 130 IQs will on have kids with an average IQ of around 118. Theoretically, this tech ( assuming I’m not being scammed) can reduce that decline by 25%. [/quote]

I say this with as much well meaning as I can gather, as someone who has more than one child:

There are many things you can not control about your children. If you are doing things like worrying about how your future unborn children will revert to the mean on their IQ, I am really concerned about much bigger things you will be much more worried about. It's easy pre-children to envision your future self, sitting back now making decisions based on averages and intellectual concepts.  When your actual child (the very definition of n=1) is here, most of that will go out the window because you will have to deal with that one, singular person.  And then you may have another child, and that one is probably going to be different in significant ways from the first.

I am not saying just let the car drive itself.  But just recognize your job is to provide a loving home, and pray/hope the other things will work out okay.  Going down roads like this and trying to drive with your hand gripping the wheel as hard as humanly possible (2-3 IQ points!) will wear you out and make you a worse parent in the long run.[/quote]

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