Are you smarter than your parents/grandparents?

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This guy's voice alone just raised my IQ by 10 points. BRB James Flynn for President 2016.

Rawrzz · Accepted Answer

I'm much smarter than my parents and profoundly smarter than my grandparents. Profoundly. I got tested in middle school with an IQ of 136. My dad's--he's said--was 113. My mom's, I don't even want to know. Pretty low. Probably below 100 by a bit. She's not stupid-stupid. She's just. Not. Smart.

The friends I grew up with, however, were tremendously smarter than me. My best friend had an IQ of 149; his older brother had an IQ upwards of 180--I shit you not--and the chick he married has an IQ upwards of 160. She graduated college by the time she was 16, then proceed to work in a biochem lab.

The rest of us got tested in Middle School, because they thought we were all retarded, due to our lackluster performance in school. He's a psychologist; she's a psychiatrist; his brother is an engineer; and, I'm an ex drug addict living at home with mom and dad. I'm smart, yo. Like. Super smart. Although, given all the drugs I've taken, my brain is probably fucked by now. My memory is shit, that's for sure.

But really. IQ is simply a measurement of academic potential. It measures things like mathematical, logical, linguistic, memory, and spatial skills. I don't have time to watch the full video, but I'll put it on my list. I would hope he factored in standard of living and differences of generational upbringing into this equation; because, IQ is heavily dependent upon class and upbringing. My granddad only has a 4th grade education; he had to work, so his whole family didn't starve. So he had significantly less of a foundation than I did.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

So to sum it up: Higher focus on cognitive abilities instead of physical labor and... That's it.

Personally I would like to think that I am, overall, marginally better than my parents and grandparents at everything for two big reasons.

1. Evolution. We're meant to be consistently refined. This might of course not be happening given how easy our lives are now.
2. Inheritance. My parents and their parents before passed down their hard learned lessons to their descendants giving us a better starting-field and more sophisticated measures for everything. From calculus to beating someone up.

Quite frankly, if I am not better than my parents then my parents have failed with my upbringing.

Hidden_P · Accepted Answer

Grandfather? Yes.
Grandmother? No.
Mother? Yes.
Father? Absolutely not.

Put it this way. My grandfather is a narrow minded, bigoted idiot. My grandmother was a pianist for the navy and welcomed the ships home during WW2. She could sight read music perfectly.
My father works as a research scientist and had to help my mother write huge chunks of her PhD. He has a good job, she became a security guard and cheated with a paedophile. She now lives pay check to pay check.

There is no way I'm more intelligent than my dad - he makes me feel an idiot and he knows that.

heavenonearth · Accepted Answer

Interesting TED talk. I haven't tested my IQ, and I don't think my parents or grandparents have either, so I'm not sure.

I would guess I'm more intelligent than my grandparents, but my parents... who knows. I'm a lot less knowledgeable than they are, that's for sure. They're both molecular biologists, have PhDs in microbiology (mom) and biochemistry (dad), decades of experience and contributions in academia and industry, etc. So, it's hard to compete with that. But I try lol.

crimsonqueen · Accepted Answer

My mother and I have both had our IQ's tested professionally by our therapists. Mine is 126 which is pretty decent but she's 139. That's really high. I think it's why she had some of the struggles she does.

My dad is also really smart but I would guess not as smart as me. I don't know my grandparents on my dad's side, but my mom's are almost illiterate.

Smmyskittles · Accepted Answer

Mother, NOPE. Grandfather? LOL, no. Old bugger (say it with luff) is crazy smart and is fully aware.

Grandmother, maybe. She's more nurturing and focuses on the kids for family events/gatherings. So, she stays out of serious/intellectual conversations.

Father, yes.

chintita · Answer

one time my mom got locked in the bathroom of my grandma's old house and the door handle broke. i slipped a wire door hanger under it and she got herself out. no one has any idea how she did it. both my parents have masters degrees so... lmfao im stupid compared to them.

AhGojira · Answer

Yes, IQ wise, breadth of knowledge across multiple domains, and creativity wise I blow blow them out of the water... They know it too and basically assume I have the answer to anything, which I often do but they still really on me for brute force and stupidity as well. :D

Other_Tommy_Wiseau · Answer

Unless your grandparents were geniuses or you're totally stupid, every generation is smarter than the previous. Just as technology is increasing exponentially, so is our overall intelligence. My grandma is bright (she's 92 and kickin well), but I don't think she's ever used a computer in her life. I've certainly never seen her used one. She does have a flip phone, though

06CuriousMind · Answer

I think experience is one of the biggest measures of intellegence. So in some aspects yes I'm smarter than my parents and grandparents, but in "life" they are definitely smarter than me

Anonymous · Answer

My grandparents are deceased so I can't count them. My last living grandparent passed when I was 7 and I don't remember her at all. I think I'm smarter than my dad. Not sure about my mom though.

giggleswilmington · Answer

Wow! That's very interesting. I always wondered why as a kid when I would ask an adult a "what if" question their answer would always be "butt its not that way" or "that doesn't make sense". Well now it does.

KittieCat · Answer

Mine is 146 Mom's is 130 Dad's is 92 Dunno about grandparents but I doubt they're higher than 130

Miezko · Answer

It's foolish to think that I could of possibly have learned more in my 27 years on this planet than my grandma learned in her 96 years on this planet.

Mustachekitteh · Answer

I have no idea but I don't feel like mine is higher than anyones.

alor1an · Answer

I very seriously doubt it. they've been around longer and have more experience.

karahiri · Answer

i am not smarter than my parents or my grandparents. their breadth of knowledge is astounding.

OrdinaryGentleman · Answer

cuck cuck cuck cucka He's hot for a gay old guy.. Do we know his iq?

Anonymous · Answer

Smarter than you for sure.

Omar5881 · Answer

Yes but I am not smarter than my father or grandfather  But I am definitely more conversative

EmpatheticLady · Answer

My father definitely is smarter than me.

rgb008 · Answer

I don't know my IQ, let alone my family's IQs haha

apple24 · Answer

I am not even book smart.

sixnineanon · Answer

I'm smarter than all of them combined 😂

Melcart23 · Answer

are you smarter than a 5th grader? O_o

DearLife · Answer

I wouldn't know.

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