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#534 - Dr Stuart Ritchie - Why Is Behavioural Genetics Such A Hated Science?

Modern Wisdom

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IQ Correlations 0.8 by Your 60s With Your Parents?

The best evidence we have at the moment is that IQ correlates 0.8 by your 60s or something like that with your parents, about 80%, is that right? Well, the heritability, so there's this weird result where the heritability goes up over time. So like, environment seems to have more of an influence at the start of your life and then it gets less important in measuring its impact on intelligence.

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