I have no such memory and have scored around 140 on official IQ tests.
There are complicating factors in my case that mean that it doesn’t necessarily completely invalidate your theory, but ‘my parents did that and I don’t remember it’ is not a particularly plausible one. I do have a pretty horrible episodic memory, but my parents were distant in general and it would have been very out of character for me to ask that kind of question of them or for them to answer that way. On the other hand, I was put in my school’s gifted program and explicitly taught ‘let’s find out’-type skills at a relatively early age that I still use today, so if you modify your theory to ‘someone has to do that, parents can make sure that it happens by doing it themselves’, that still works.
It seems odd to consider individuals that I saw perhaps one day out of eight, 9 months out of the year, for four or five years (the teachers in the gifted program) as ‘having raised me’, but oddness aside it is a compelling model in some ways, yes.
I have no such memory and have scored around 140 on official IQ tests.
There are complicating factors in my case that mean that it doesn’t necessarily completely invalidate your theory, but ‘my parents did that and I don’t remember it’ is not a particularly plausible one. I do have a pretty horrible episodic memory, but my parents were distant in general and it would have been very out of character for me to ask that kind of question of them or for them to answer that way. On the other hand, I was put in my school’s gifted program and explicitly taught ‘let’s find out’-type skills at a relatively early age that I still use today, so if you modify your theory to ‘someone has to do that, parents can make sure that it happens by doing it themselves’, that still works.
The people who raised you are not necessarily the people who conceived you, nor the people who owned the house you slept in.
I think ‘parents’ is being used as a proxy for ‘people who raised you’.
It seems odd to consider individuals that I saw perhaps one day out of eight, 9 months out of the year, for four or five years (the teachers in the gifted program) as ‘having raised me’, but oddness aside it is a compelling model in some ways, yes.