Quote Originally Posted by Poopadoop View Post
I think there's something to what you say - that a person's intelligence is generally stable and will remain similar throughout life. But there is also an element of nurture in it, too. To take an extreme example, if two kids with the same genome are raised in starkly different environments, one who goes to good schools may end up with a very high IQ and one who the parents keep locked in a dark basement will have a low one. So perhaps the best way to think of intelligence is as 'learning potential' or some such.
I stand by my belief that if you could devise an IQ test on how to be the most intelligent basement-slave, that it wouldn't be the college educated one who scores top marks.