Critique of Hereditarian Accounts of "Intelligence" and Contrary Findings: A Reply to Jensen
- 1 September 1969
- journal article
- Published by Harvard Education Publishing Group in Harvard Educational Review
- Vol. 39 (3) , 571-580
- https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.39.3.k775m52771352427
Abstract
The confounding of environmental and hereditary influences is a considerable problem in estimating heritability from twin studies. Fred S. Fehr discusses this problem and suggests two ways of calculating heritability which separate these influences more cleanly than the formula commonly used. The importance of heritability in the determination of intelligence is considerably less than suggested by Jensen when the effects of environmental variables are thus more adequately controlled.Keywords
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