Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!ghh From: ghh@clarity.princeton.edu (Gilbert Harman) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Genetics and IQ Message-ID: Date: 19 Aug 89 00:52:15 GMT References: <16369@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Organization: Princeton University Cognitive Science Lab Lines: 28 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? -- Gilbert Harman Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory 221 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542 ghh@princeton.edu HARMAN@PUCC.BITNET