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370 <strong>Educability</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Group</strong> <strong>Differences</strong><br />

HOW h 2 IS EMPIRICALLY OBTAINED<br />

Obviously one cannot measure the various components of VP<br />

directly. So they must be estimated indirectly. The indirect<br />

estimates are made from correlations (or covariances) among<br />

persons of differing degrees of kinship.<br />

The correlation between individuals (who are paired or grouped<br />

according to some degree of relationship, such as being reared<br />

together, or being twins, or siblings, or cousins, etc.) can be<br />

represented in terms of the various components of total variance<br />

which the individuals have in common. In general, the correlation,<br />

r, is<br />

Variance Components in Common<br />

Total Variance<br />

Thus, we can theoretically represent the correlations for different<br />

degrees of kinship in terms of variance components. For example,<br />

the highest degree of relatedness is the case of identical or monozygotic<br />

(one-egg) twins reared together (MZT). The correlation<br />

between such twins, rMZT, is:<br />

Vg + Ve + VGE +CovGE<br />

-MZT = — ----- B t/ " £ ................ (A. 10)<br />

V p<br />

The correlation between monozygotic twins who are separated<br />

<strong>and</strong> reared apart in uncorrelated environments, rMZA, is:<br />

* M Z A = y p (A.ll)<br />

To the extent that the genotype influences or selects the environment,<br />

some indeterminate part of CovGE will be included in the<br />

numerator of Equation A .ll.<br />

The correlation between fraternal or dizygotic (two-egg) twins<br />

or singleton siblings reared together is approximately:<br />

VGb + VEb +CovGE /a _<br />

rDZT or rST — y (A.12)<br />

The correlation between dizygotic twins or siblings reared apart is<br />

approximately:<br />

d za or rSA = y * (A. 13)

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