Table 1. Proportion of men born in Sweden 1961–1975 who were convicted of one or more violent offences 1973–2009 and mean general cognitive ability, divided by sibling type.
Cognitive ability, mean (SD) | |||||
Number of pairs | Violent crime (%) | No violent conviction | Violent conviction | Cognitive ability,sibling correlation | |
Full brothers | 119,195 | 6.6% | 5.2 (1.9) | 3.9 (1.7) | 0.49 |
Half-brothers, reared together | 8977 | 13.8% | 4.6 (1.8) | 3.6 (1.6) | 0.33 |
Half-brothers, reared apart | 12,574 | 14.3% | 4.7 (1.8) | 3.7 (1.6) | 0.24 |