Which of the following is true of adoption studies?
A. They lack the control of a real experiment because researchers cannot manipulate the adoption variable.
B. They have shown that rearing children apart from their biological parents has no effect on their intelligence.
C. They are worse than family studies in determining the heritability of a trait.
D. They completely control for environmental influences.
Answer: A
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