Stefan MolyneuxVerified account

Not really

Sorry this basketball team is full

Diet, exercise, and recovery during developmental years will contribute to height, regardless of genotype.

Yes, but genotype will also limit your maximum height in optimal circumstances. You cannot grow indefinitely.

Of course. I would never disagree with that. Which is why I said contributes and not determines. A Pygmy can grow tall for a Pygmy but they’re not teaching the top shelf in the grocery store.

But surely proper nutrition makes you taller right?

Another gem. People who argue against can't wrap their brain around entire concept. Not that education isn't mentality stimulating but there are genetic "intelligent ceilings" you can't breach with education.

Well... I'm pretty sure early childhood learning and proper parenting will raise IQ.

I think his point is that education doesn’t raise your IQ but leverages the potential of it – maximizes it. I don’t know if this is true but I think that’s what his point is.

5/ "[M]uch of the causal pathway between IQ and schooling points in the direction of the importance of the quantity of schooling one attains.. Schooling fosters the development of cognitive processes that underpin performance on most IQ tests." http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1992-12228-001 …