Most Children of Smart Parents Will Be Pretty Ordinary • Otherwise
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I find it so easy to love the idea that my kids will be special and talented. But parenting is a roll of the dice, and you could get all kinds of outcomes.
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You’re unlikely to hear your friends bragging about their offspring’s poor spelling or inability to tell time.
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Parents who deviate from the population in any way — especially tall, especially smart, or whatever — will likely have children who are closer to average. It’s regression toward the mean. Of course, unusual parents will sometimes concentrate unusual genes — Yao Ming (7 ft 6 in) is the child of two basketball players measuring 6 ft 7 in and 6 ft 3 in. But the most common outcome is that two very tall parents will have a child who’s closer to typical height than the parents.
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title: Most Children of Smart Parents Will Be Pretty Ordinary • Otherwise
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!author:: juliawise.net
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I find it so easy to love the idea that my kids will be special and talented. But parenting is a roll of the dice, and you could get all kinds of outcomes.
- No location available
- parenting, nature v.s. nurture,
You’re unlikely to hear your friends bragging about their offspring’s poor spelling or inability to tell time.
- No location available
-
Parents who deviate from the population in any way — especially tall, especially smart, or whatever — will likely have children who are closer to average. It’s regression toward the mean. Of course, unusual parents will sometimes concentrate unusual genes — Yao Ming (7 ft 6 in) is the child of two basketball players measuring 6 ft 7 in and 6 ft 3 in. But the most common outcome is that two very tall parents will have a child who’s closer to typical height than the parents.
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