1. THE CORRELATION BETWEEN g LOADINGS AND HERITABILITY IN RUSSIA.
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Voronin, Ivan, Te Nijenhuis, Jan, and Malykh, Sergey B.
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GENERAL factor (Psychology) , *INTELLECTUAL development , *HERITABILITY , *STATISTICAL correlation , *META-analysis , *INTELLIGENCE tests , *COMPARATIVE studies , *ECOLOGY , *INTELLECT , *RESEARCH methodology , *MEDICAL cooperation , *RESEARCH , *TWINS , *EVALUATION research - Abstract
The study focused on the extent to which the general factor of intelligence g and heritability coefficients of the subtests of an IQ battery correlate. Modest to strong positive correlations were found in five studies from Western countries and six studies from a Japanese meta-analysis. The results for Russian twins were compared with those of the Western and Japanese studies. Data from 402 twins aged 13 and 296 twins aged 16 showed correlations of r=−0.45 and r=−0.60, respectively. It is concluded that the two data points are clearly not in line with established findings. It may be that the link between g loadings and heritabilities is more complex than previously thought. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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