Can Intelligence Be Nurtured?

Intelligence is based on nature AND nurture: Study finds your environment plays a significant role in how smart you are. It is often debated whether intelligence is significantly influenced by a person's environment or their genes. Now, a study has shown that intelligence is a product of nurture as well as nature.

Is IQ more nature or nurture?

Experts say nurture has the biggest impact

Certainly, heredity plays a part in IQ, but there's not much parents can do about that once a child is born.

What affects intelligence nature or nurture?

Currently, there is consensus that nature (genetics) and nurture (environment) influences intelligence. ... Research shows that intelligence is a product of heredity-environment interactions; thus, inherited abilities interact with environmental factors.