Don’t worry, Dads – children don’t actually inherit their intelligence from Mum

Last week, a report from a psychology website suggested that children actually inherit their intelligence from their Mums – and Dad is pretty much not involved.
Naturally, that got a lot of people hitting the ‘Like’ button on Facebook – but there’s just one, tiny problem.
It’s actually not true.
The post, by Psychology Spot isn’t actually about new scientific research at all – instead, it mashes together a whole load of old studies.
And it gets them completely wrong – in fact, so wrong that Forbes describes it as a ‘hot mess’ in a detailed breakdown
The Psychology Spot blog post from March... read more