<p>when u hear bout kids who graduate with a 5.0w graduating sophomore year, or becoming a surgeon at 16, is that hard work or just that they r genetically superior?</p>
<p>A lot of that has to do with their parents.</p>
<p>Genetically superior? I’m inferior to no man.</p>
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<p>This.</p>
<p>Of course, good genes help too. :D</p>
<p>I don’t think I’d want my surgeon to be younger than me… Lol. </p>
<p>But I think most of it’s based on hard work and I guess some of it has to do with parents. Generally kids who graduate that early have had more oppurtunities to do things like summer school and college courses in order to get the credits to graduate early. In that case, the parents must have been at least somewhat smart. </p>
<p>However, there are plenty of people with stupid parents who are just as smart and graduate at a normal time. </p>
<p>Do I think some people are genetically superior? Perhaps, but I don’t think it necesarilly comes from your parents. If that were the case then only people who had parents go to college would go to college and vice versa.</p>
<p>ehhh…
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<p>lol that scares me…
But asside from that most of it is parent pressure…</p>
<p>i definitely think that genetics plays a role for the precocious people that graduate early from high school and college and are curing cancer by the time they are 16.
Among the general population, hard work is the factor tha allows person to achieve. This explains why people whose parents did not go to college are often able to go to college. To truly be extraordinary, however, raw talent (aka genetics) plays a larger role than anything else IMO.</p>
<p>A lot of it is just plain luck and having your feet in the right doors. Like I have a paper published and the only reason I got a job in the lab was because my brother worked there a long time ago. The work wasn’t that hard, any semi-intelligent high school kid could’ve done it.</p>
<p>There have been some links made to genetics and intelligence, but nothing truly substantial. The fact is, some of the most intelligent people I know have the most ■■■■■■■■ IDIOTIC HOOLIGAN children, and some of the DUMBEST IDIOTIC MONKEYS I know have some of the smartest children.</p>
<p>I think most of it is based on early interaction and spatial development (based on what the little kid experiences) and early nutrition.</p>
<p>Nature vs. Nurture</p>
<p>“I don’t think I’d want my surgeon to be younger than me…”</p>
<p>Even when you’re 84?? ;)</p>
<p>brings us back to the idea of “EUGENICS”</p>
<p>While I tend to emphasize hard work, I feel that such rare cases are at least somewhat due to innate ability.</p>
<p>Janelle09, I meant now :P. Haha… no when I’m 84 I definitely want some hot young doctor operating on me ;).</p>
<p>mostly it’s just parents PUSHING for stuff like that.</p>
<p>I vividly remember a story I read in YM (long-defunct teen magazine) about a girl who graduated college at 14 (as in, started at 10)…she seemed <em>normal</em> and the interviewer emphasized how her mom basically had made such a big deal about her. The girl just seemed like she didn’t want to be bothered-she felt ostracized at her college b/c of her age-it was just too hard for her to connect.</p>
<p>Nightsd, how dare you say that my children are dumb? LoL :P</p>
<p>hahahahah @ Hooligan</p>
<p>Certain people are naturally smarter than others. Their brains just work differently. I don’t want to brag, but I am definitely one of these people.</p>
<p>Just kidding.</p>
<p>Actually i personally know a girl who took classes at the University of Iowa, and she was 12. She went their full-time. A lot of people said it was probably pressure from her parents. I felt bad because her dad left her at the college with a nanny (I know!) in a campus apartment, while he lived a few hours away.
I think all she did was pass her GED to enroll there. I don’t even know if shes considered a genius, but now her childhood is super messed up.</p>