Re: Gene supremacy (Was: Re: Meme supremacy)

Nicholas Bostrom (bostrom@mail.ndirect.co.uk)
Sun, 17 Aug 1997 02:26:58 +0000

Eric Watt Forste <arkuat@pobox.com> wrote:
> Nicholas Bostrom writes:
> > How do people who believe that upbringing accounts
> > for much of the variability of intelligence explain the fact
> > that the correlation coefficient between adopted children reared
> > together is only 0.02?

> It all depends on the age of the children at which the period
> of "being reared together" began.

So, Anders, do you still have access to the book from which you
cited this figure, or do you perhaps remember the average age of
adoption?
Nicholas Bostrom
London School of Economics
Department of Philosphy, Logic and Scientifc Method
email: n.bostrom@lse.ac.uk
homepage: http://www.hedweb.com/nickb