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HEREDITY AND INTELLIGENCE: A REPLY TO CRITICISMS
Author(s) -
Burt Cyril,
Howard Margaret
Publication year - 1957
Publication title -
british journal of statistical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.157
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 2044-8317
pISSN - 0950-561X
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8317.1957.tb00004.x
Subject(s) - heredity , mendelian inheritance , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , psychology , epistemology , evolutionary theory , philosophy , biology , genetics , gene
Summary An attempt is made to remove current misconceptions about the way in which individual differences in general intelligence appear to be inherited. Further support for a multifactorial form of the Mendelian theory is found in an examination ( a ) of the commoner objections, both methodological and statistical, and ( b ) of the chief alternative hypotheses, viz., (i) the theory of blending inheritance and (ii) the theory of exclusively or predominantly environmental determination.