@slatestarcodex It's only human behavioral geneticists that were dumbfounded by few-gene models. Animal breeding research was doing fine by assuming _infinitely_ many variants per Fisher. See this 2001 theoretical paper with 2.8k citationshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1461589/ …
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You know who is in large part responsible for the improvement of human behavioral genomics? Peter Visscher. Guess his background. Yep, it's animal breeding. Breeders weren't trying to maximize number of pubs they were trying to maximize profit thus needed real predictive validity
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