I find this poll very misleading for the other reason that just having a non-zero relationship isn't meaningful at all without any knowledge of how strong the effect is or how influential.. Seems kind of trollish & counterproductive to ask the chances of it being literally zero
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The idea is to see how much a fear of seeming racist would induce people to deny the relatively obvious claim that few genetic correlations are exactly zero.
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I don't mean to sound harsh but you should stop referring to group differences as "genetic correlations". It's just inaccurate, and the problem is too important and divisive to talk about loosely.
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How would you have worded the question?
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See my blogpost at https://goo.gl/NfgXZh . It is a very difficult problem, imho immune to strictly correlational analysis and (sorry) inappropriate for Twitter polls.
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Replying to @ent3c @robinhanson and
Would you also defend the following claim: "Origin of Population Differences in Height is Not a Scientific Question"?
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What he means is that it's not yet a scientific question because a formal & logically coherent method to study the % decomposition of the "gap" has not been proposed (and that applies to other traits too)
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And in fact height ain't so easy. The Dutch were significantly shorter than Americans pre-WWII; now they are significantly taller. Height was highly heritable in individuals then and now.
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So are the Dutch "innately" taller than Americans? It's a meaningless question. Now is no more a reflection of perfect biological reality than 1920 was. Height is not located in the genome; it is always expressed in an environment. Tomorrow's environment will be different.
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Some variants will lead to increased height in a large number of environments. If one population has more of these variants it will generally be taller than if it lacks them. Pending on definition of inherent, this is inherent.
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The obvious hereditarian reply here is just that the Americans used to have better height boosting environment that had a larger effect size than Dutch genetic advantage, but after this was equalized, the Dutch genetics advantage shows.
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