A Very Little Bit of Knowledge

Re-Evaluating the Meaning of the Heritability of IQ

Bibliographic Data

ID20293121
AuthorsDavid S Moore (0000-0002-4230-5393, Pitzer College, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume49
Issue6
Pages347-353
Publication date2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHuman Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-716X • E-ISSN: 1423-0054
PublisherS. Karger AG (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.1159/000096534
OpenAlexW2017964173
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

There is a deeper assumption underlying adoption studies that is often not acknowledged by either adoption study researchers or their critics, and it is an assumptions that is at least as important as the two considered by Richardson and Norgate: the assumption that the heritability statistics generated by adoption studies are informative about something of consequence. Although Richardson and Norgate’s paper presents several valid criticisms of adoption studies of IQ that lead them to suggest a ‘radical reappraisal’ of such studies, a reappraisal even more radical than the one they suggest might, in fact, be warranted

Biology · Bit (key) · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Heritability · Meaning (existential) · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research · Child and Animal Learning Development · Cognitive Abilities and Testing · Computer Science · Genetics · Psychology

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