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Yes, but since the heritability is high, the average IQ of the children will be close to the average IQ of the parents, despite the fact that it will tend to re
by xyzzyz 7mo ago
Yes, but since the heritability is high, the average IQ of the children will be close to the average IQ of the parents, despite the fact that it will tend to regress towards the mean.
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- snowwrestler 7mo agoThat’s not how genetics works. It’s not a simple averaging scheme.
- xyzzyz 7mo agoThat’s exactly how it works in the standard additive model of heritability, and we have lots of empirical evidence that heritability of intelligence matches that model very well.