The Scottish Mail on Sunday

Identical twins with very different IQs

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A PAIR of identical twins separated as infants were found to have substantia­lly different IQs as adults.

Born in South Korea in 1974, one got lost at a market aged two and was later adopted by a US couple. They were reunited in 2018 when the US twin submitted DNA to a South Korean database.

An IQ test showed the twin raised in the US scored 16 points lower than her Korean sibling, contradict­ing studies that say difference­s among twins are never more than seven points. The journal Personalit­y and Individual Difference­s said the US sister raised had suffered three concussion­s which may have influenced her cognitive ability.

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