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> Spoilers: they stay wealthy. But not as much as their non-adopted siblings. Correlation of 0.23 vs 0.33 https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07
by fvdessen 7y ago
> Spoilers: they stay wealthy.
But not as much as their non-adopted siblings. Correlation of 0.23 vs 0.33
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/rich-people-raise-kids-family-wealth/399809/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/rich-pe...
- ajross 7y agoThat's not a finding about race, though. It's saying IQ is highly heritable, which everyone accepts. The question is whether whole "races" (which are populations with vastly higher genetic diversity than a nuclear family!) actually correlate like that, not whether smart people tend to have smart kids.