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IQ Varies with Context [Greg Laden's Blog]

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 11:27 AM PST

In a very interesting way.

As a regular reader of this blog, you know that IQ and similar measures are determined by a number of factors, and for most "normal" (modal?) individuals, one's heritage (genes) is rarely important. Putting it another way, variation across individuals in IQ and other measures have been shown again and again to be determined by things like home environment, diet and nutrition, and even immediate social context. Here's another finding supporting this:

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