IQ tradeoffs might make it easier for people to accept the importance of IQ to educational achievement.
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"Being smart is a double-edged sword. Intelligent people appear to live longer, but many of the genes behind brilliance can also lead to autism, anxiety, and depression, according to two new massive genetic studies."http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/hundreds-new-genes-may-underlie-intelligence-also-autism-and-depression …
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@evolutionscribe That's the opposite of what they found. Anxiety/depression are *inversely* genetically correlated with IQ. Look at figure 4: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/09/05/184820.full.pdf … all negative signs. ie higher IQ = lower depression/anxiety. -
If anyone ever tries to tell you that IQ genetically correlates with anything bad other than autism symptoms and myopia, insist on seeing the correlation matrix and then triple-check at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_correlation#Intelligence … ...
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And bipolar disorder(small) , if I remember well
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I think that one might be sampling error (rg power is affected by both traits' sample sizes and SNP heritabilities as well as the rg effect size itself) but I'd have to check. In any case, genetic correlations of IQ with bad things are very rare and surprising.
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Why is autism the (highly likely) exception?
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See the link. Possibly trait heterogeneity: confusing brokenness/inability to do theory of mind with ability & preference for abstract systematizing.
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Right. That's probably the most famous takeaway from the Terman Study - IQ 130 types are as healthy or healthier than everyone else. This is only reinforced by all the cross-sectional/longitudinal studies or retrospectives - TIP, SMPY, HCES etc.
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The extension of economics is obvious in this case: every aspect of a living being, from intelligence to running faster, comes with a cost/benefit matrix. An implication surely suggested by evolution by natural selection.
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Unless the number of harmful mutations ones has plays a key role in fitness and IQ. Evolution doesn't have the "technology" to eliminate all of these mutations, and they amount anyone has is going to vary a lot.
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This is good. Now when friends and family ask what the fuck is my problem I can just say I’m a genius
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So, consider very carefully whether you want a high or low IQ.
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Oh yeah in any corporate company, the smart people are always depressed. They know too much!
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The reason depression and anxiety correlate with intelligence is because intelligence brings ones comportment with telos into view. For most, that's horrifying.
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Then I must be a freakin' genius.
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It isn’t the genes, it is the morons, who surround us from cradle to grave, that cause these symptoms of insight.
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