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The book outliers says that research shows roughly half of IQ dictated by genetics. Do you have research that contradicts this?


50% would be "highly hereditary".


It's interesting to visualize what % heritable actually means. Here is a graph from a recent study trying to predict height from human genes. They found a correlation of 0.64

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4qSTryry0so/WcAhygytvTI/AAAAAAAAS...

That means, in practice, your height outcome tends strongly toward a fairly narrow range around the predicted mean. I found it illuminating to visualize the pattern.

(The full article is http://infoproc.blogspot.ca/2017/09/accurate-genomic-predict...)


50% is a lot...




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