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    1. Antonio Regalado‏Verified account @antonioregalado 24 Jul 2018
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      The headline. Nice. Trying to head off, parlay, knee jerk reaction by the further left to anything to do with IQ and genetics. Author is a geneticist who wants to create space for science...but only so much space, as we shall seepic.twitter.com/sSc2Wwpckz

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    2. Antonio Regalado‏Verified account @antonioregalado 24 Jul 2018
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      Here’s what prompts the editorial. A news study linking genetic factors to length of education. This succinct summary is interesting for a couple of reasons.pic.twitter.com/L74bkZCYWY

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    3. Antonio Regalado‏Verified account @antonioregalado 24 Jul 2018
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      Everyone involved in this research, and all the reporters writing about it, had to make decisions about how to handle it. Sensitive stuff. The crux of of the sensitivity boiled down to one thing: are the genetic predictions strong or weak?

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    4. Antonio Regalado‏Verified account @antonioregalado 24 Jul 2018
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      If genetic predictions of educational success are strong, then temptation/danger of using IRL. authors of original report skinned cat by saying predictions really bad, but very good for further science stuff they want to do. Ed yong here in Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/staying-in-school-genetics/565832/ …

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    5. Antonio Regalado‏Verified account @antonioregalado 24 Jul 2018
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      Ed showed the take on the data that makes it look bad. From this cloud of dots (education vs. gene score) were supposed to judge individuals? Nah thankspic.twitter.com/B9L2Yfz2r9

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    6. Antonio Regalado‏Verified account @antonioregalado 24 Jul 2018
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      But there is another view of the predictions that’s kinda startling. Which is what happens when you bin people up by their scores into 5 groups low to high. Then it really looks powerful. College grad rate on left axis. Polygenic score quintile on bottom.pic.twitter.com/BUThblhbJd

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    7. Antonio Regalado‏Verified account @antonioregalado 24 Jul 2018
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      The author of the New York Times editorial, even though she’s taking a position similar to Ed, interestingly, chooses to highlight the more dramatic data.pic.twitter.com/uCv3jfL0VV

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    8. Antonio Regalado‏Verified account @antonioregalado 24 Jul 2018
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      I can’t say why she did. But in my own coverage I did the same. It was not, I think, the preferred message of the authors of the report, which appeared in Nature Geneticshttps://www.technologyreview.com/s/611680/million-person-genetic-study-finds-gene-patterns-linked-to-how-long-people-stay-in-school/ …

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    9. Antonio Regalado‏Verified account @antonioregalado 24 Jul 2018
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      Are these predictions from DNA of how far a person gets in school strong or weak? Depends on how you look at it. In technical terms they explain 11% “of the variance” in the trait. Authors of original report insist this has no practical value in policy or indiv prediction.

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    10. Antonio Regalado‏Verified account @antonioregalado 24 Jul 2018
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      I am not so convinced. Some reasons: -polygenic scores in the market, like 23andMe prediction of BMI to consumers, are worse or equal to this one (I’m pretty sure) -medical researchers are stoked if they can predict 5% of variance in say heart failure and think it’s a product

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      Emil O W Kirkegaard‏ @KirkegaardEmil 26 Jul 2018
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      23andme BMI predictor explained here. https://permalinks.23andme.com/pdf/23_17-GeneticWeight_Feb2017.pdf …pic.twitter.com/vc7w9kNfo2

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        1. Antonio Regalado‏Verified account @antonioregalado 26 Jul 2018
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          something like 16 of their 26 traits reports are polygenic, including photonic sneeze and male pattern baldness. would love to know the variance explained for all.

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