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What empirical evidence is there that intelligence is "75% maternal"?
by falsestprophet 12y ago
What empirical evidence is there that intelligence is "75% maternal"?
- michaelochurch 12y agoThe number is just a stabbing guess (and I meant, "75% of the component that is genetic") but there are a lot of results showing the maternal influence on intelligence. The point (which is that a lot of powerful, rich men end up with kids stupider than they predicted, and have to buy jobs for them) would be the same if I said "60%" or "80%". Here's one of the seminal papers on the topic, from 1996: http://jpepsy.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/3/197.full.pdf http://jpepsy.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/3/197.full.pdf What's unclear is whether it's genetic or related to other confounding factors (e.g. maternal health). We really don't even have a good grasp of what intelligence is or why these differences between individuals exist.
- falsestprophet 12y agoYeah that is correct. Maternal is very different from genetic of course. I was surprised that you of all people would have missed the mark on the heritability of intelligence.