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The researchers did a study of Swedish military conscripts (98%) of male population. They tested if high-intelligence is as inheritable as general-intelligence.
by kylemathews 11y ago
The researchers did a study of Swedish military conscripts (98%) of male population. They tested if high-intelligence is as inheritable as general-intelligence. They found strong evidence that it does as siblings of high-intelligent soldiers also tended to more intelligent than the norm.
- ambicapter 11y agoHow does that show anything. Can't you assume that siblings would be raised in similar environments?
- themetrician 11y agoSimilar levels of intelligence have been seen even in switched-at-birth twin cases where one twin is raised by one family and another by another. The IQ between the twins was in every case more correlated than the IQ of each twin and their family-siblings. Look up the interview with Nancy Segal on YouTube about Twin Studies and IQ.
- bpodgursky 11y agoWhy is the comment by themetrician dead? (sibling to comment here) I don't understand.
- femto113 11y agoThey controlled for environment by considering the difference between non-twin siblings (< 2 years apart in age), fraternal (two-egg) twins, and identical (single-egg) twins. The correlation in intelligence between non-twin siblings and fraternal twins was similar, and both are significantly lower than the correlation between identical twins. The most plausible explanation for this is the genes that identical twins share.
- vox_mollis 11y agoNearly every twin study done in the history of twin studies has demonstrated minimal effects of shared environment on outcomes.