oh yes sonny my boi
there is indeed something to what you are saying
but only just a lil itty bitty bit
My kid was destined from birth to have high native intelligence
but if I'd have subjected him to malnutrition
mental, physical & emotional abuse
withheld any opportunities for learning and
provided a series of disastrous roles model for him
yer right he would have become a total piece of garbage
or I could have just chosen to spawn with a girl with average IQ?
Then he'd have been cursed with a lousy ~ 100 IQ, no amount of proper parenting
and opportunity could have raised him much beyond average.
Now I seriously doubt there are many geniuses born into the families
down in the hollers and yes even if by some cosmic accident one is born there,
he or she is so thoroughly submerged in simpleminded, thickheaded stupidity
there's no way to know the difference.