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Re:Not Saying Winter Is Coming, but Where’s Your Coat? by CoryG89 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @12:30PM (#12219186)
The heritability of IQ is often estimated at 0.4 according to Wikipedia. Not very high, but not insignificant. Height has 0.8 heritability.

Even if you're a genius, it doesn't mean your child will be. I think 0.4 suggests environmental factors are more important.

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Re:Not Saying Winter Is Coming, but Where’s Your Coat? by aianus on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @01:04PM (#12219518)
It's 0.4 in childhood, rising to 0.7 to 0.8 in adulthood.

Saying that you can adopt a child and raise him to be smart is approximately as foolish as claiming you can adopt a child and raise him to be tall.

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Re:Not Saying Winter Is Coming, but Where’s Your Coat? by JamesBarney on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @02:39PM (#12220351)
Nope it's .75. IQ heritability is only .4 for children but it climbs to .75 as the children age into adulthood adults. So it's basically as heritable as height.

Wikipedia Quote

"The general figure for the heritability of IQ, according to an authoritative American Psychological Association report, is 0.45 for children, and rises to around 0.75 for late teens and adults"

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