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> Why not just have your mate do an IQ test? People don't mate at random: those who value intelligence will select intelligent mates.

> For that matter, why pick race as your correlating factor? You could also correlate by college major, highest education attained, or wealth

There's a little problem with that, because from what I know, there's a regression to the mean in biology.

If two exceptionally tall Japaneses have children together, their children might be a little taller than their national mean, but they won't be as tall as the parents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpmlqtnrec8

parent Frozenlock 10 years ago

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