When you look carefully at the data, however, these statistics do not offer strong support for the idea that people with high IQs are destined for greatness. It"s important to control for potentially confounding factors such as the socioeconomic circumstances of the Termites" families. Children with educated parents and more household resources tend to score better on IQ tests, and this privilege could, in turn, make it easier to have success later in life. Once this is taken into account, the Termites did not perform much more remarkably than any children of similar backgrounds.