Re:16 point IQ difference between identical twins raised apart
by civilized on Sunday May 08, 2022 @11:30AM
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Wow. Massive, massive omission. If true, the person who publicized this either tossed it off without doing much homework or had a serious ideological axe to grind.
Re:16 point IQ difference between identical twins raised apart
by 015UUZn8aEvW on Sunday May 08, 2022 @11:35AM
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Again, I'm just re-posting that comment. Would be nice if someone who could read the actual article confirmed that the comment is accurate.
Re:16 point IQ difference between identical twins raised apart
by littlestymaar on Monday May 09, 2022 @07:10AM
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Unfortunately it's not yet in the Library of Alexandra …
Re:16 point IQ difference between identical twins raised apart
by xhkkffbf on Sunday May 08, 2022 @11:38AM
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Once I started reading that they were trying to assess the political beliefs of the twins and measuring their feelings about things like collectivism, I started to smell that this was turning into political propaganda. Especially when they claimed one grew up in a more religious household. How does one measure that? Especially when there's a good chance there were different religions in both families.
Re:16 point IQ difference between identical twins raised apart
by littlestymaar on Monday May 09, 2022 @07:08AM
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> Especially when they claimed one grew up in a more religious household. How does one measure that?
How is that supposed to be hard to measure?
Not only this doesn't sounds especially hard to do roughly, but it is in fact a pretty well studied topic in social science so there's plenty of literature about how to do such a measurement.
Second, I can't access the actual paper, but a commenter at Marginal Revolution wrote the following:
"Everyone in the comments here arguing about the implications of this study for the heritability of intelligence (vs. other factors like parenting) seems to be missing an important piece of information buried in the study: the twin raised in the US suffered three concussions as an adult, including one in 2018 that resulted in "light sensitivity and concentration difficulty" and led her to feel like a "different person, with increased anger and anxiety." It is hardly surprising that someone who has suffered multiple major concussions would score lower on tests of cognitive ability than someone who has not."