Anonymous wrote:Do you think your choice is spouse affected how intelligent or smart your children are?

One has aspergers like my spouse, one has fast processing and empathy like me. We all drive each other crazy.

Anonymous wrote:According to both my mother and my mother-in-law, DS is way smarter than either of us were at his age. And we’re reasonably intelligent so I think DS is in good shape.

My mother and FIL says that about DS but I take it with a grain of salt. Might be some bias there.

Anonymous wrote:I’m the dumbest one in my family. Our poodle outwits me.

Poodles are very smart dogs, PP.

I’m the dumbest one in my family. Our poodle outwits me.

According to both my mother and my mother-in-law, DS is way smarter than either of us were at his age. And we’re reasonably intelligent so I think DS is in good shape.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow we really do live in Lake Woebegone, only all the parents are also above average!

More like only the above average parents are responding to a thread about intelligence.

… and on a forum that is geographically focused and likely to pull a skewed sample of the US population as a whole

DH is very very smart (PhD, speaks multiple languages, very talented musically) and DS, age 19 so an adult, is wildly smart as well. He's already about halfway through college with a 3.9 average. I'm in the 130's, always bright but had to work a little harder. DD has global delays and is a 102. Things are a lot harder for her and she works extremely hard to get B's and C's at a challenging HS. It's hard for her because we all did so much better in school with less work.

DD and I are probably pretty close in intelligence. I might be a bit higher, but she makes up for it by working harder than I do. DS1 is smarter than DW but probably not as smart as DD or me. DS2 is probably pretty close to DW but behind DD, DS1, and me. DS2 has the best EQ, though.

Good thing we didn't have a fourth as each one got a little less smart.

DH, DW, DD and DS all 142-145. Some are kinder than others, some have better executive functions, some better at math, some better at music!

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Anonymous wrote:So every kid here is extremely bright and well above average? Hate to break it to you guys but that statistically isn't possible.

You’re assuming responses from a random sample.

Yeah, and people on this website are generally above average. We are in a bit of a bubble so we don’t always remember that there are people who are very not smart.

And this is evidence that intelligence isn’t all its cracked up to be because some of the posters on here say some wild shit.

Yup. Dcum is thoroughly entertaining

Anonymous wrote:This is a serious question, not meant as snark: how do so many people know their children’s IQs? I grew up with lots of smart, bright kids who have done well for themselves professionally but only one kid that I know, who was uniquely and incredibly gifted, was ever tested. Is it more common to test now? At what age are kids getting tested?

My district tested all of us for the gifted program, if I remember correctly. The person who tested me in fifth grade told me my score. That’s actually not supposed to happen. I went back as an adult and asked to see my file. The number I remembered was the number in the file.

Anonymous wrote:It’s not in the genes. Both of my parents went to Ivy League skills. I went to one year of junior college and did horrible in school. I have ADHD, but when I was a kid, nobody knew what that was. I had a million friends growing up, played sports, have my my own business, but book smart I was not.

One counterexample doesn't disprove a theory.

People in this area are above average. They did a study a few years back and this area has the highest concentration of advanced degrees pretty much anywhere.

So it's not surprising that there are a lot of bright parents with bright kids responding to this thread.