[lbo-talk] twin studies & IQ

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 22 10:50:22 PST 2007


Obviously "intelligence" is connected to genetics. If it weren't, human beings and dogs -- nay, human beings and cacti -- would have the same intellectual capability.

--- Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
>
> Here's the chain of reasoning: if genetics has
> nothing to do with IQ
> performance, then the correlation in IQ scores
> between biological
> parents and the children they have no contact with
> should be zero. The
> observed correlation is around .20. Yes, I agree
> that this is a
> relatively weak predictive relationship; however, it
> does exist. This
> does provide some evidence for genetic influence.
>
> Miles
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