Children's school attainments show a far-reaching dependence on those of their ancestors, not attributable to similarity of environment¶

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q2 i? Comparing school records of children, parents and grandparents, Peters found evidence of far-reaching dependence of children's attainments on their ancestors', and argued the connection was not due to similarity of environment. → Peters 1912

Evidence¶

Peters 1912¶

Peters, W. (1912). Pedagogy at the Berlin Psychological Congress. The Journal of Educational Psychology, 3, 452-457. https://eric.ed.gov/?q=Pedagogy+at+the+Berlin+Psychological+Congress

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Statistical study presented by the report's author (Peters) on "The Inheritance of Intellectual Capacities," comparing school records across three generations; the report states "Galton's law of ancestral heredity and the law of filial regression find confirmation in these results."

"He compared the school records of children, parents and grandparents, and found evidence of a rather far-reaching dependence of the attainments of children upon those of their ancestors. He also showed that this connection was by no means due to similarity of environment."

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