'Law of filial regression' was postulated by

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The tendency for a child of a parent who scored extremely high or extremely low on some heritable characteristic, such as IQ or physical stature, to score closer to the population mean than the parent. This phenomenon is explained by regression towards the mean. It is also known as Galton's law of filial regression.

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