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Merging these arguments together with Bouchard & Mezard's in public discussion would erroneously conflate all these arguments and weaken the impact of Bouchard & Mezard's findings.

Why doesn't he give authors like bouchard and potters who have built on mandelbrot's work their due?

But Bouchard & Mezard says they're, for the most part, simply very lucky.

Britton, Claude Bouchard Journal of Applied Physiology Published 1 June 2010 Vol.

Furthermore it is important to distinguish them from Bouchard & Mezard's.

The simulation studies of Bouchard & Mezard show that, regardless of initial conditions, wealth distribution ends up a Pareto distribution with a small percentage taking almost all of the goods.

The take-away of Bouchard & Mezard's studies: the very rich aren't rich because they earned it (i.e., because they are skillful or knowledgeable), they are rich mostly because they are lucky.

However, in summary, both arguments, although well taken and each worthy of discussion in it's own right, are clearly not the same as the findings that Bouchard & Mezard et al present.

The salient point of the too-long article was about flaws in a seminal paper on this subject where the author Bouchard presented carefully collected data for identical twins - showing remarkably low variance suggesting a high degree of inheritance.

Johnson, Wendy; Turkheimer, Eric; Gottesman, Irving I.; Bouchard Jr., Thomas (2009).

It happens that some of the leading authors on human behavioral genetics just wrote an article about what heritability does and does not mean Johnson, Wendy; Turkheimer, Eric; Gottesman, Irving I.; Bouchard Jr., Thomas (2009).

[1] Johnson, Wendy; Turkheimer, Eric; Gottesman, Irving I.; Bouchard Jr., Thomas (2009).

In a recent article the g-factor also appeared in a battery of 42 tests (Johnson,W Bouchard, TJ, “Just one g: consistent results form three test batteries”).

Here is an example of a recent article: “Just one g: consistent results from three test batteries”, (Wendy Johnson, Thomas Bouchard, etc...) 2004.

I said it was 80% heritable From your own low-effort wikipedia 1st google result link: " recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80%.[8] IQ goes from being weakly correlated with genetics for children, to being strongly correlated with genetics for late teens and adults." Bouchard, Thomas J.

With a moment's thought you can see that the answer to the question of how much variance would be reduced if everyone was genetically identical depends crucially on how genetically different everyone was in the first place." Johnson, Wendy; Turkheimer, Eric; Gottesman, Irving I.; Bouchard Jr., Thomas (2009).

That's what is said explicitly by Tom Bouchard, one of the most cited researchers in the field.

Bouchard, Jr., and he has been a participant in the journal club I mentioned in my top-level comment in this thread.

It's possible to get past the pay wall on this brand new article Johnson, W., Turkheimer, E., Gottesman, I., and Bouchard, T.