Is IQ genetic?

Being smart doesn't guarantee getting out of the slums. Did you think that being smart alone takes you out of the slums 100% of the time?

Yes, they are both factors. The genetic part is what causes discrepancies between different ethnic groups who live in essentially the same enviroment.

How much of your intelligence is determined by genetics is another question, but is clear that genes have a strong influence over an individuals intellect.

>genetics aren't a factor at all when it comes to IQ
>It seems like you want that to be the case rather than provide any proper logic that supports your claim.
Well then let me employ mathematics to demonstrate the reasoning:

First we must assume that when someone dies, their IQ becomes 0.

Second we must assume that no person alive has an IQ of 0.

Now let us assume IQ to be x and environment to be y.

x-y=0
(death by starvation removes 100% of a persons IQ)

That means there is no room for any other factor. If we were to add the factor for genetics, z, the formula would look as follows:

x+z-y=0.
(death by starvation still removes 100% of a persons IQ, regardless of z)

Clearly, therefore, I have shown now that z can not have any value for there exist no conditions whereby both x-y=0 and x+z-y=0 could be true other than z being 0.

>The genetic part is what causes discrepancies between different ethnic groups who live in essentially the same enviroment.
Where does this happen? Ethnic groups all have different environments, even in the most mixed cities.

different apititudes create difference conditions. brianlets do manual labor and retail with the other illiterates and the cognitive elite stay in their white collar safe space.

Nowhere are there 2 people that live in 100% identical enviroments (not even twins in the same family do). However all factors that can be deemed influential on an individuals intellectual development are essentially the same for individuals of different ethnic groups in modern society.

Yes culture is one factor that determines how intelligent an individual becomes, but there is no reason to believe that it is the sole determining factor of such a complex thing as intellect.

Looks like your mom should have fed you better.

Genes are part of what causes death in an individual. Y must then contain both enviromental and genetical factors. Even with your purposefully shitty logic we can conclude that IQ is part hereditary.

>all factors that can be deemed influential on an individuals intellectual development are essentially the same for individuals of different ethnic groups in modern society.
Holy shit no, not at all. There are lots of environmental factors. So fucking many. I'm not saying genetics is not part of it, but any person benefits from improved environment, and there's so much room for improvement. Go see how schools run in the inner city for instance.

>but any person benefits from improved environment
Nobody is disputing this.

Of all the ethnic groups that live in the inner city, some will be smarter despite them all living there and going to the same shitty public schools.