It was Samuel Bowles and Herb Gintis who first taught me that very strange things are going on in the inheritance of inequality in America. They found that although measures of cognitive performance like IQ are strongly inherited, “the genetic transmission of IQ appears to be relatively unimportant”: high IQ-parents do have higher-than-average IQ-children, but … Continue reading The Value of Choosing the Right Parents: Creg Clark: Friday Focus: February 21, 2014