This is my first question in this forum and hence forgive me if the question is amateurish. I was always interested in what a psychology expert will say about this.
Consider a boy who is dumb from his childhood. Here dumbness means, he is terrible at making decisions in the immediate situations. Very shy from childhood. Sometimes people make fun indirectly, and he does not get that at that moment. Sometimes other persons try to draw information from him which may harm him, and he innocently tells everything ... etc.
But on the other hand, that same boy turned out to be good in school. Good at the undergraduate level and doing well even in postgraduation also.
This leads me to the question, why do some boys turn out to be so dumb? It seems like it is genetic rather upbringing problem. I will appreciate a deeper and literature based answer.