this is kind of a comical article.

i wasted a lot of time when i was young chasing ideas that i learned were false...

it could be that there are 10,000 genes involved in intelligence. hell, why not make it 10,000,000?

or it could be that patterns are easy to find when you've got a sample set that big...whether the patterns are caused by inheritance, or not.

super smart kid chases super stupid goal? tabula rasa, baby..

http://www.wired.com/2013/07/genetics-of-iq/