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The procedure for classifying items from the California Psychological Inventory into “genetic” and “environmental” groups, as carried out by Horn, Plomin, and Rosenman (Behav. Genet. 6:17–30, 1976) with the Veterans twin sample, was repeated with male pairs from the National Merit twin sample. There was no significant consistency in the items selected into the two categories in the two samples. It was concluded that individual personality questionnaire items may be inherently too ambiguous for profitable behavior genetic analysis.
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This work was supported in part by Grant BNS-7902918 from the National Science Foundation.
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Loehlin, J.C. Are California Psychological Inventoryitems differently heritable?. Behav Genet 16, 599–603 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01066286
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