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From: ghh@clarity.princeton.edu (Gilbert Harman)
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Subject: Re: Genetics and IQ
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Date: 19 Aug 89 00:52:15 GMT
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In-reply-to: ahmad@icsib6.Berkeley.EDU's message of 17 Aug 89 15:19:22 GMT

In article <16369@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
ahmad@icsib6.Berkeley.EDU (Subutai Ahmad) writes:
>>   The morning news today reported a study conducted by the
>>   University of Minnesota.  The study concerned the relationship
>>   between IQ score and the environment/genetics.  The results
>>   reported were:
>>	   1) Children adopted by well to do parents tended
>>	      to score higher on the IQ test than children
>>	      adopted by less well to do parents.
>>	   2) Adopted children whose real parents were well
>>	      off did better than adopted children whose real
>>	      parents weren't well off.
>>	   3) Adopted children whose real parents were well
>>	      off and whose foster parents were well off
>>	      performed the best overall.

If there is a correlation between having well off real
parents and well off adopted parents, then (1) could account
for (2) and (3).  Has this factor been taken into account?


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