SOC 207: The Connection Between Intelligence And Genetics

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The Connection between Intelligence and Genetics
Statement of Purpose
The paper aims at testing science’s proposition that there is a link between genetics and intelligence such there is a gene(s) that determine the level of a person’s intelligence. It purposes to find out if the claim of science that the link between genes and intelligence in a way that we can make a conclusion that intelligence is a factor of genes and not an influence of the social environment.
Methodology Statement
The paper purposes to test the hypothesis that intelligence is directly linked to genes as opposed to the social environment by reviewing the following peer reviewed articles. It will expand its wings to analyzing statistics from medical records, the research findings that are yet to be assessed and statistics from the ministry of health. It will as well, through surveys and quantitative research, obtain its data to test the hypothesis.
Literature Review
The peer reviewed secondary sources to be analyzed to prove the hypotheses of the paper include the following.
Hanscombe, K.B., Trzaskowski, M., Haworth, M.A,C., Davis, S.P.O., Dale, S.P & Plomin R. (2012). Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Children's Intelligence (IQ): In a UK-Representative Sample SES Moderates the Environmental, Not Genetic, Effect on IQ. Retrieved from http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0030320
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