[lbo-talk] twin studies & IQ

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 21 10:11:46 PST 2007


On Nov 20, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:


> Based on twin and adoption studies, the heritability ratio
> for IQ performance is .40 to .60, meaning about half of the
> variation in
> IQ scores can be attributed to genetic variation.

Wait a minute. This says something about genetic composition and performance on IQ tests - specifically, people with identical chromosomes perform similarly, but well short of identically, on IQ tests. But what does it tell us about inheritance? That's a parent- child relation, not a sib-sib relation. What's the correlation between parental and child IQs?

Doug



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