SOME REINTERPRETATIONS OF THE MINNESOTA TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION STUDY

This article questions five inferences drawn by Weinberg, Scarr, and Waldman from their 1992 study of the intelligence of transracially adopted children. Contrary to the authors' conclusions, the data indicate that adoption by white middle-class families has no beneficial effect on the intelligence of black, interracial, or white children at an average age of 17 years.