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Heritability of achievement tests at age 10-14 in Norway’s entire population

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:27. June 2025
Post category:Genetics / behavioral genetics intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

Since discussing heritability estimates is all the rage, with Seb Jensen producing a new meta-analysis, and Scott Alexander providing a great review (which was somehow praised by both sides since…

Read more about the article Mainstreamers keep making progress: educational attainment variation “likely” caused by ancestry variation in Europe

Mainstreamers keep making progress: educational attainment variation “likely” caused by ancestry variation in Europe

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:22. April 2020
Post category:Population genetics

Lawson, D. J., Davies, N. M., Haworth, S., Ashraf, B., Howe, L., Crawford, A., ... & Timpson, N. J. (2020). Is population structure in the genetic biobank era irrelevant, a…

No special sex-linked inheritance of cognitive ability/intelligence (except for a few rare disorders)

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:27. October 2017
Post category:Genetics / behavioral genetics intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability
Post comments:1 Comment

Some guy on SSC: I remember hearing somewhere that the IQ of the mother is what determines the IQ of the children. Is this accurate? To what extent does the…