The saved-you-a-click answer: not that much, but do read on.
This week there was the news of the drop of the average IQ aka the reverse Flynn-effect. The big insight of this new study was that this isn’t probably due to genetics, but rather due to the environment. So, if the environment can affect this IQ – besides the obvious genetic element – what can we do as a parent? This new study tries to answer this question by looking at children that were adopted to control for genetic confounding, but the answer is sobering: parenting has a marginal and inconsistent influence on offspring IQ.
So if we combine the insights of both studies we learn:
- the environment is important related to the Flynn-effect and
- family and parenting characteristics are not significant contributors to variation in IQ scores.
Well, than we have to look further to education, media, …
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kadir kozan 