Why educational inequality runs in families: Genetics more than environment

[mpweiher]

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/rehdj_v1

[pmags]

Some reading if you'd like to some critical framing of this and similar twin studies and path analysis models:

Gusev, S. Twin heritability models can tell you whatever you want to hear. https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/twin-heritability-mo...

Feldman Marcus W. and Ramachandran Sohini. 2018. Missing compared to what? Revisiting heritability, genes and culture. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B37320170064 http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0064

[crankyOldGuy]

A correlation of 0.31 is not very meaningful. This is of little value, as far as I can tell.

[readthenotes1 → crankyOldGuy]

I think that's the point - - that .31 is not meaningful, so it is not parental education that matters, it must be something else.

They ascribe 68% of that something else to genetics