• krashmo@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    There’s no guarantee of anything in life. You can say that, statistically speaking, intelligent parents raise intelligent children though. The inverse is often true as well.

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      18 days ago

      Correlation, causation, and such. Anectotal: know a well educated (i.e. intelligent) family, one child dumb as fuck.

      What the “intelligent parents” bring to tme table: often money, but generally resources to educate the children. Send them to better schools, fund a college education, be capable of helping them with homework, enabling their outer curriculum activities.

      That’s all stuff that society could provide for parents who can’t, but society doesn’t. Thus, statistically as you wrote,

      • intelligent parents = intelligent children
      • dumb parents = dumb children

      with the occasional outliers.