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18: Straight Talk about IQ

The Psychology Podcast

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The Changeability of IQ

There is a genetic component to IQ, I don't think that's in doubt at all. And again, that doesn't mean that there's an environmental component as well. The effect of family environments generally seems to be pretty small in behavioral genetic studies. People seem to want to believe that the ability to raise your IQ - whatever it is - is more easily discover and readily available than it is.

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