I’ll comment without evaluation. Unless the headline is misleading.... I have a high IQ and it didn’t come from my mother! Nor her side of the family. The brains were definitely on my father’s side of the family. NO DOUBT. I don’t need some “scientist” to tell me this.
That correlates with my experience and observations. That said, I have observed kids that were not intelligent from a set of parents that were both very intelligent. Finding kids that are very intelligent when both parents are not is a rare thing from what I have seen.
” I have a high IQ and it didn’t come from my mother! Nor her side of the family. The brains were definitely on my father’s side of the family. NO DOUBT. I don’t need some “scientist” to tell me this.”
My mother’s side is pretty bright, and while my maternal grandmother was no dummy at all, my maternal GF graduated at the top of his high school class (in a heavily Jewish area of NYC where no one was shooting hoops after school) only 5 years after getting off of the boat (literally) without knowing any English. He later got into med school when it was far more difficult for Jews. He later passed the Florida medical boards at age 70 - a test that purposely discriminated against non-residents at the time (the late ‘70s). So how did I get any of his smarts if they pass down from the mother’s side (i.e. my mother would have gotten hers from her mother, NOT her father).
For that matter, my father was also a doctor, having graduated 3rd in his dental school class, among other accomplishments. Many, many musicians (none stupid, a couple a bit famous) on his father’s side of the family. How did any of that get to my father.
I scoff at “studies” like this - there are probably dozens of genes that go into determining one’s potential intelligence, and they are probably inherited from BOTH sides of one’s family. No, I cannot prove it, but it is logical. Look around you: there are a lot of smart men that marry empty-headed but beautiful women (for obvious reasons). Some of their kids end up as smart as Dad, and some are as dumb as a box of hammers (like, presumably, Mom). And, yes, sometimes it works the other way when the mother is smart and the father is some dumb jock.
The truth is that many scientists are SINOs - they don’t use much science, but they can give you a paper with all of the appropriate lingo in it (witness “Global Warming”).
Finally, intelligence is what you make of it - it is potential. I’ll take a 110 IQ person who works up to that potential, vs. a 135 IQ person who sits around and plays literal mind games all day long and accomplishes nothing.