Tuesday, April 21, 2009

How to raise the IQs of a new generation

By Nicholas D. Kristof, Times Colonist

Poor people have IQs significantly lower than those of rich people, and the awkward conventional wisdom has been that this is in large part a function of genetics.

After all, a series of studies seemed to indicate that IQ is largely inherited. Identical twins raised apart, for example, have IQs that are remarkably similar. They are even closer on average than those of fraternal twins who grow up together.

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