Thinking positively: The genetics of high intelligence

They wanted to know what accounts for the difference between the high-intelligence group and the average-intelligence group.

> (1) we conclude that high intelligence is familial, heritable, (2) and caused by the same genetic factors responsible for the normal distribution of intelligence.

The 1st part is simple to understand, what is confusing everyone is the 2nd part... As the combination of both parts does not make sense (due to the type of "interpretation" presented).

Here is the clearer version -

(1) They found that intelligence was mostly hereditary (inherited via genes passed on by parents).

(2) They further found that the top scorers could also be divided into their own bell-curve. That the high-intelligence group had there own distribution that followed the same pattern (which gives the bell-curve even more validity).

To understand #2 just imagine a smart kid (in high-school) getting accepted into MIT, and once in, that smart kid finding out that he is now just "average" compared to some of the others.

These conclusions are very politically-incorrect, especially for a progressive country like Sweden where you are not supposed to even acknowledge that different dog breeds have different behaviors.

Point number two above is well taken. Also there's more 'stretching' at the higher end. For example you may find a couple of individuals who can do complex del functions on a variety of topics in their head and somehow seem 'inspired' whereas others specialize on one arcane topic and spend countless weeks feeding research data into matlab or Wolfram apps while scouring onscreen .pdf tech archives for suitable algorithms they can adapt. But at this stage of the game functional genomics is in its infancy (you can't yet feed a genome's UCAG sequence into your 3D printer and expect it objectify a true object). For fuller understanding of implicit nature / nurture parameters concerning intelligence it may be more practical to select and isolate a suitably large sample from the center of the general population, where (dy/dx) = -yx is relatively flat, and insert such into a distraction-free positive artificial environment which focuses primarily on intellectual development and includes cognitive enhancement medical supplements such as nootropics or whatnot to varying degrees. Results may suggest high-intelligence is more latent than suspected, especially if sub bell curve distributions manifest.