Increasing the Raw Intelligence of a Nation Is Constrained by Ignorance, Not Its Citizens' Genes.

Wahlsten, Douglas

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Publication Date: 1995

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Increasing the Raw Intelligence of a Nation Is Constrained by Ignorance, Not Its Citizens' Genes.

Wahlsten, Douglas

Alberta Journal of Educational Research, v41 n3 p257-64 Sep 1995

Criticizes claims in "The Bell Curve" that a high value for heritability of intelligence constrains the extent to which environmental changes can increase intelligence. Cites adoption studies and the increasing intelligence of successive cohorts of U.S. children as evidence that intelligence can increase substantially without heroic intervention. (Author/SV)

Descriptors: Adopted Children, Cognitive Ability, Family Environment, Heredity, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Quotient, Intervention, Nature Nurture Controversy, Socioeconomic Status

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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