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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: AIList V6 #86 - Philosophy
Message-ID: <981@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 88 03:59:48 GMT
References: <1579@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <3200016@uiucdcsm> <523@wsccs.UUCP>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <523@wsccs.UUCP>, dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey) writes:
> lives.  Even a casual perusal of the studies of identical twins
> separated at birth will produce an uncanny amount of similarities, and
> this also includes IQ levels, even when the social environments are
> radically different.

ONLY a casual perusal of the studies of separated twins will have this
effect.  There is a selection effect:  only those twins are studied who
are sufficiently far from separation to be located!  A lot of these
so-called "separated" twins have lived in the same towns, gone to the
same schools, ...