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Peer reviewedWillerman, Lee; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
Adoptive parents and their adoptive and natural children took IQ tests. Speed of solution correlated with verbal IQ and .51 with performance IQ among the parents. Mothers' speed correlated negligibly with scores of adoptive and natural children. Fathers' speed correlated more with their natural than adopted children's performance scores.…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Children, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education
