Is stupidity or intelligence genetic?

Started by Sir Whirlysplat2 pages
Sir Whirlysplat Restricted
Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
What is your primary language?

I suspect German or Icelandic

Eis androgynous mind

VVD, spanish, I'm chilean.

Originally posted by Sir Whirlysplat
I suspect German or Icelandic

Icelandic, I wish...

Victor Von Doom Latverian Diplomat

Originally posted by Eis
VVD, spanish, I'm chilean.

Icelandic, I wish...

You appear to have grasped the language better in three years than many others here have throughout a lifetime's usage.

Eis androgynous mind

Thanks.

Sir Whirlysplat Restricted

I see it was the Bjork and 99 red ballloons that threw me, you use English very well 🙂

Eis androgynous mind

Originally posted by Sir Whirlysplat
I see it was the Bjork and 99 red ballloons that threw me, you use English very well 🙂

And the username.. it has that affect on most people. 😬 I just love german music.

Alpha Centauri Restricted

How did you learn the language, Eis?

-AC

Eis androgynous mind

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
How did you learn the language, Eis?

-AC


I moved to China, here very few people speak spanish.. so the only way to have a social life was to learn english.

Alpha Centauri Restricted

I was just about to say it struck me as odd that someone would move to China to learn English.

Though judging from our general populace, England is ironically the worst place to learn English.

-AC

Darth_Erebus The End

There is evidence to suggest that genetics DOES play a role in intelligence. The jury is still out on how much.

Eis androgynous mind

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
I was just about to say it struck me as odd that someone would move to China to learn English.

Though judging from our general populace, England is ironically the worst place to learn English.

-AC


No, no. I did not move to China so that I could learn to speak english, I'm only 13 years old. I meant I learned english when I moved to China.

Sir Whirlysplat Restricted

Originally posted by Darth_Erebus
There is evidence to suggest that genetics DOES play a role in intelligence. The jury is still out on how much.

agreed - excellent post 🙂

BobbyD Animal Lover

Ha...great question. I wonder myself sometimes, FistoftheNorth.

crazylozer n00b boy

I think intelligence can me measured in different ways. Being smart generally means that you can quickly grasp what is taught, and draw conclusions from that. However, some people are generally better at one thing or another. Some may be mathematical savants, or some may be linguistic geniuses, etc. etc. Something things could be learned by nearly everyone, but how quickly you learn and how meaningful it is to you is a measure of your particular aptitude in that area. Music for example is one thing that is special to people according to (maybe?) genes. One may spend their life surrounded by music, and they may turn out more musically gifted than others, but it takes a special person to be a musical genius (Mozart, Beethoven, etc. etc.).