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Heritability of IQ

2008-06-18 · Original WordPress address

There's two surprising things about this table:
Age
Adoptees Controls
1-2 .13 .09
3-4 .20 .17
7 .07 .17
12 .00 .30
16 .00 .30
The first is the zero correlation Prof. Caplan points out between IQ of adopted 16 year olds and their adoptive parents (the left column). The second is the low correlation between the IQs of natural born children and their parents (the right column).

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