The odds that my efforts pay off are pretty good. Both twin and adoption studies confirm that parents affect how their children perceive and remember them. When adoptees in the Colorado Adoption Project were ten to twelve years old, researchers asked both biological and adopted children questions about their families. How loving, communicative, and conflict-prone were they? Siblings gave fairly similar answers whether or not they were biologically related. Suppose you rated your family more positively than 80 percent of kids. Expect your adopted sibling to rate your family more positively than
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In other contexts hed b playing these numbers off as only a very minor effect size. Its "moderate" and thus he can play it either way
