College Quote by Jerome Kagan

All the work on heritability was never based on looking at genes; it was based on the similarity between identical twins or between parents…

— Jerome Kagan

“The heritability estimate of general intelligence was 26% at age 5, 39% at age 7, 54% at age 10, 64% at age 12, and starting at age 18 the estimate grew to over 80%.”

— Richard J Haier

The relationship between heredity and IQ in human beings is well established. But that does not mean that if you have a group difference,…

— Charles Murray

Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on academic abilities,…

— Daniel Goleman

“Heritability of various aspects of cognitive development is very high (e.g., around 70 percent for IQ) in kids from high–socioeconomic status (SES) families but…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“The “IQ fundamentalist” Arthur Jensen put it thusly in his 1980 book Bias in Mental Testing (p. 113): “The four socially and personally most…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“What’s a heritability score? “What does a gene do?” is at least two questions. How does a gene influence average levels of a trait?…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were…

— Walter O'Brien

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

— Steven Pinker

A person's level of intelligence is not solely based on the genes that they inherited from their parents. How a person was raised also…

— Crystal Yang

“And that is the problem: academic intelligence offers virtually no preparation for the turmoil—or opportunity—life’s vicissitudes bring. Yet even though a high IQ is…

— Daniel Goleman

Essentially, I mean the almost self-evident fact that individuals, ethnic groups, and races differ among themselves in intelligence and in many other traits, and…

— Murray Rothbard