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by tptacek 91 days ago
What's "highly"? It's likely somewhere between 15%-50% --- weak-to-medium, if you read it as a correlation coefficient.
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IQ is about as heritable as body height.

> The results show that the heritability of IQ reaches an asymptote at about 0.80 at 18–20 years of age and continuing at that level well into adulthood.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-hu...

2013 is the phlogiston era of this science. Even the hereditarians hedge on the 0.80 claim now.
Source?
Alex Strudwick Young.
Link?
He's pretty easy to find. I'm not messing with you, he's just the most obvious example that came to my head. For I think kind of obvious reasons?