Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!spl1!laidbak!att!pacbell!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!AI.AI.MIT.EDU!NICK From: NICK@AI.AI.MIT.EDU (Nick Papadakis) Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: [quintus!ok@sun.com: Re: AIList V6 #86 - Philosophy] Message-ID: <19880602045129.2.NICK@JONES.AI.MIT.EDU> Date: 2 Jun 88 04:51:00 GMT Article-I.D.: JONES.19880602045129.2.NICK Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 19 Approved: ailist@ai.ai.mit.edu Date: Sun, 15 May 88 23:59 EDT From: Richard A. O'KeefeOrganization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA Subject: Re: AIList V6 #86 - Philosophy References: <1579@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, <3200016@uiucdcsm>, <523@wsccs.UUCP> Sender: ailist-request@ai.ai.mit.edu To: ailist@ai.ai.mit.edu In article <523@wsccs.UUCP>, dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey) writes: > lives. Even a casual perusal of the studies of identical twins > separated at birth will produce an uncanny amount of similarities, and > this also includes IQ levels, even when the social environments are > radically different. ONLY a casual perusal of the studies of separated twins will have this effect. There is a selection effect: only those twins are studied who are sufficiently far from separation to be located! A lot of these so-called "separated" twins have lived in the same towns, gone to the same schools, ...