Single Idea 16417

[catalogued under 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 7. Intelligence]

Full Idea

Possibly a third of the variation in our intelligence is down to the environment in which we grew up - nutrition and education, for example.

Gist of Idea

About a third of variation in human intelligence is environmental

Source

New Scientist writers (New Scientist articles [2013], 2013.10.29)

Book Reference

-: 'New Scientist magazine' [ 2013], p.31


A Reaction

This presumably leaves the other two-thirds to derive from genetics. I am a big believer in environment. Swapping babies between extremes of cultural environment would hugely affect intelligence, say I.