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Manfred comments on [Question] Adoption and twin studies confounders - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 11 July 2014 04:44PM

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Comment author: Manfred 11 July 2014 05:24:09PM *  5 points [-]

And there's also the problem that you're sampling the environment of people who adopt kids. Conclusions drawn from twin studies don't necessarily hold outside similar families - though it very likely holds for mine :P