From GraphJam.
I’m not sure if this chart is supposed to represent the parents’ actual IQ or the IQ they are perceived to have by their children…
Posted by: audreyln | July 16, 2008
Parental IQ versus Child’s Age
Posted in On the World Wide Web | Tags: GraphJam
Clearly the graph represents the actual parental IQ:
Parents of infants and toddlers experience a boost in IQ from an awareness of their prior stupidity in having children in the first place. This short term boost gets wiped out as the child becomes able to outwit them and reduce them to a quivering wreck of certifiable lunacy (12 years to 20 years). As the child enters adulthood and starts to screw up, the parent benefits from a belated intellectual renaissance. The more the child becomes aware of just how damn hard life was for his or her parents, the more the parent knows everything and questions nothing about the supremacy of his or her intelligence.
By: brain exercises and working memory training on July 16, 2008
at 7:27 pm
Kind of reminds of: http://xkcd.com/323/
By: Andrew Ferguson on July 16, 2008
at 8:54 pm