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Re:Best-selling introductory psychology books give misleadin... by throwaway337 on Thursday March 08, 2018 @08:49PM (#16549286)
All of these things are controlled for.

These are professors whose job it is to make sure you don't have such confounding variables.

You even have twin studies where one twin was adopted by rich and one by poor parents and it still holds.

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Re:Best-selling introductory psychology books give misleadin... by thraway180306 on Friday March 09, 2018 @09:36AM (#16551977)
What about Stoolmiller in Psychol. Bull. 125:392-409 who found families deciding to adopt forming a pointedly restricted range. Being for example exceedingly intelligent with IQ over 120 on average, which is obviously different than general average.
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Re:Best-selling introductory psychology books give misleadin... by marcelluspye on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:48AM (#16550023)
Source?
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