a) placing him as the kid of an Asian family with 110 average IQ and a culture that valued academic success.
b) waving a magic wand to make him the genetic son of those same Asian parents, but raising him as a ‘typical white person’ (trademarked by Obamassiahindustries).
Choice A would raise his IQ to 106 and choice B would raise his IQ to 104.
Sans magic if you took the average white kid (100 IQ) and the average Asian kid (104 IQ) and switched parents then the white kid raised by Asian parents would have a 106 IQ while the Asian kid raised as white would stay at 104 IQ.
Yep, hard work MUST not be the answer!!! LOL!!!
Environmental factors are more easily manipulated than genes but that's far from saying it's easily done. In fact, it's almost impossible. If your parents are overweight, illiterate, morons who've never worked in their lives, and all their friends are similar, which is likely, then YOU ARE TOAST.
All that is assuming your interpretation of heritability is correct. I don't think it is...but it'd take quite a bit of research to be sure. I'll give you a hint as to why I think you're wrong. The IQ distribution curve is bell shaped, not linear.
And those few points extra do not mean success , success come in application . Add 20 more points to the equation and there is still little difference (people in this IQ range still think in practical terms ) start adding lots more and thinking changes to theorem style thinking (think mathematicians )but they pretty lose out on practical thinking and have trouble tying their shoe laces ;)
Bottom line is if you want your children to be successful don’t blame their genes , teach them good work ethics.
(that starts 100% at home)