Tag: nurture vs nature
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The history of IQ and the nature vs. nurture debate
Few topics in psychology have sparked as much passion, controversy, and misunderstanding as the debate over intelligence. The concept of the intelligence quotient, or IQ, transformed a philosophical question into a measurable construct, but it also ignited one of the most enduring scientific discussions: how much of human intelligence is inherited, and how much depends…
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Blacks and Hispanics have genetically lower intelligence
Of course, there is no exact evidence that different races possess different intelligence (g factor (IQ)). Let’s pretend blacks have the same genes for intelligence as East Asians and white people. However, there have been experiments with the exchange of children of different races into respectively different families (black children into white families and vice…