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Intelligence is Inherited

Posted by michael on from the insanity-is-too dept.

codeButcher writes: "Now you can blame it on your parents! NewScientist.com reports on a study done on twins, that determines that IQ [and lack thereof then too, I suppose] is inherited. Quote: The finding suggests that environment - their own personal experiences, what they learned in life, who they knew - played a negligible role in shaping it."

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  1. Guess you should... by Evil+Attraction · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...think twice before shouting out "stupid parents" in the future, eh?

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  2. Please tell this to teenagers... by mfarah · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... they won't believe you at all. At that age, all parents are stupid - I know mine were. Of course, they started to get more intelligent when I hit the 20-year old mark. I can only conclude that intelligence is increased by continous contact with intelligent young people.

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  3. Re:This is perhaps about 5% away from being crap. by SIGFPE · · Score: 3, Funny

    There is a very good exposition of all of these issues in Steven J. Gould's Mismeasure of Man

    Oh yes. Stephen J Gould is well known as being completely unbiased in his expositions. I mean there's no way Gould would let his political ideas have any influence on what he reports as fact in his articles. I've read a dozen books by Gould and I still have no ideas where along the political spectrum his opinions lie.
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