[Gay State Conservative]

I know pretty much nothing about genetics but I know a little bit about medical research and the “nature vs nurture” question.When deciding a “nature vs nurture” issue one method they use is to study identical twins raised apart and adoptees in general.Have any such studies been conducted in connection to intelligence?

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops, sorry, meant to ping you to #15.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1937345/posts?page=15#15

[mnehring]

The difference is that the twin studies deal with unique family groups while the prior discussion was counteracting a blanket ‘racial’ judgment. The fact is that what we see in individual family groups don’t reflect what the whole of the represented race because the family group differences far outweigh the racial ones (ie, any racial group is so diverse in family differences, blanket statements cannot be made for a whole based on what we describe as ‘race’)