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Re:Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict S... by davidgerard on Monday December 09, 2019 @06:13PM (#21747714)
you know as well as I do that zip codes are more heritable than IQ

and predict results pretty well too

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Re:Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict S... by gwern on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @09:27PM (#21768783)
No, I don't, because they're not: are identical twins more likely to live in the same zip code as fraternal twins? Seriously, think about it for a second. Or I'll put it this way: how much more likely are identical twins adopted out to live in the same zip code?

Nor does zip code predict remotely as well as IQ.

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Re:Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict S... by athrowwwwway on Thursday December 12, 2019 @08:08AM (#21771501)
Are we just making up definitions of heritability now?

http://bactra.org/weblog/520.html

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