Of course they are not.
bamboomedley writes:
I know this is quite old now but I’ve been very curious. Robert, do the people in your family tend to have unusually high verbal abilities but perhaps mediocre visual-spatial and perhaps even mathematical abilities?
Yes.
All of us are geniuses except my late father.
Father: IQ 129**, high verbal, poor math, Bachelors Degree History, Masters Degree Counseling, teaching credential.
Mother: IQ 150, high verbal, poor math. Bachelors Degree English, two years law school (both @ Berkeley).
Me: IQ 147, high verbal, poor math, Bachelors Degree Journalism, Masters Degree Linguistics, teaching credential.
Brother: IQ 140+*, high verbal, poor math, Bachelors Degree Biology.
Brother: IQ 140+*, high verbal, poor math, Bachelors Degree Political Science.
Sister: IQ 140+*, high verbal, poor math, Bachelors Degree Sociology.
However, one of my brothers is an excellent artist. Not sure if that is visuospatial as most of the artists I have known sucked at math.
*Not sure what the individual scores of my siblings were, but my mother has told me that we all scored very high, and oddly enough, all of our scores were right around the same. No one was much smarter or dumber than anybody else.
**My father was a very smart man, but in some ways, he was a bit concretistic in his thinking. He just couldn’t seem to expand his mind all that much.
