The correlation between the IQs of biological parents and their offspring is about
.47. For identical twins reared in the same family group, it is
(a) zero, because they do not vary at all
(b) about the same as that of the parents
(c) very high, close to .90
(d) perfect, that is 1.0, otherwise they would not be identical
C
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