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Monday, January 1, 2001
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IQ Intelligence Quotient "Regression to the mean"
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Q. Is it true that a child's IQ can neve be higher than his parent"s?
A. It's not true. The scientific term for this tendency is "regression to the mean,"
but it is a statistical phenomenon, not a biological one. It simply means that,
within a given population, average intelligence appears stable, and people tend
more to be average than exceptional. If both parents have IQs of 125, they are
more likely to produce a child with an IQ of 100 to 125 than to produce a child with
an IQ over 125, But exceptions do occur routinely---easily accounting for the broad
range of ability in society.
Source: Parade Magazine 8/23/98 "Ask Marilyn"
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LCLCPL
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