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Re:Billionaires Build by Olreich on Saturday December 05, 2020 @06:45AM (#25313821)
Via what mechanism are we testing? Did we send some kids through a good upbringing and some to a bad one in a randomized controlled way, or did we just take a survey and assume intelligence was passed down through genealogy instead of upbringing?
Re:Billionaires Build by notSupplied on Sunday December 06, 2020 @02:34AM (#25321851)
Through foster children, and measuring whether their IQs are ultimately more correlated with their foster family or genetic family.
Re:Billionaires Build by webmaven on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:56AM (#25315431)
> Via what mechanism are we testing? Did we send some kids through a good upbringing and some to a bad one in a randomized controlled way, or did we just take a survey and assume intelligence was passed down through genealogy instead of upbringing?

The most informative studies in this area are usually of twins-separated-at-birth, but the datasets aren't very large.