Relation between student Intelligence IQ score and parent's income?

Answer 1

There is no relation, no matter how much people say there is. you could be the riches person in the world and your child could be extremely unintelegent same goes the other way, you could have a very low income and give birth to a geneous

Answer I'm sorry to say that the previous answer is not based on current scientific understanding, and is unfortunately incorrect. No matter how much we might wish the world to be otherwise, there are two facts about IQ and income that can't be ignored: (1) Children growing up in well-to-do households are likely to have higher IQs than children growing up in poor households (though there are certainly high IQ children in poor households, and low IQ children in rich households);

(2) Adults with higher IQs tend to make more money than adults with lower IQs (though once again, there are dim-witted rich people, and smart poor people). It is important to understand that the above facts do not prove that wealth or money causesuperior intelligence, only that they are related to higher intelligence, possibly through intermediate mechanisms such as genetics and environment.

It is known that heredity accounts for about half the variability in IQs, and developmental environment for the other half of IQ variability. From this, it is easy to see that (1) and (2) above are closely related. Not only that, there is good reason to suspect that the relationships in (1) and (2) are self-perpetuating and mutually reinforcing: high IQ adults make more money, and provide heredity and environment favorable to high-IQ children, who then grow up to continue the cycle. It is usually better to deal with the world as it is, rather than as we'd like it to be at some future time. In assuming that there's no connection between income and IQ, we might unwittingly support policies that worsen the IQ-income disparities in our society. On the other hand, if we acknowledge the truth of this connection, then measures that improve the financial resources available to poor children could become more popular, because we suspect that these could help children, and our entire society, become smarter and richer over the long haul.