I’m still not over the fact that someone published this chart thinking it showed “strong evidence” of a genetic predictor of IQ (h/t @neoliberal_dad)pic.twitter.com/7uShu1Q8vL
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0.09 is not "impressive". I've literally done work on predicting cancer progression from gene sequence data. It's fucking garbage, you can't predict shit, even if you massage the CoV to high single digits in-sample.
Sure, but you can predict someone's adult height by their height at age 2 (or 18 months for girls because nature is a reactionary bigot and hasn't gotten the message that sex is socially constructed) with a lot of confidence. You don't need to know any genes to do that.
Predicting height at age 18 from height at age 2 has zero to do with genetics (and lots to do with environment????), but keep moving those goalposts.
>lots to do with environment???? lol
have you heard of these two countries called "north and south Korea"? They're virtually genetically identical and yet the difference in average male height is like 4 inches.
And yet in both of those countries everyone is shorter than the average person from the Netherlands.
And yet 150 years ago the average person in the Netherlands was shorter than the average person in NK today.
As they say,
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OK, and how tall was a person in East Asia 150 years ago. A persistent gap that does not go away despite improvements in nutrition can best be explained by...
For these traits the higher your n the weaker the signal and the more you track noise or correlated traits. That's why they're not just doing whole genome prediction, which they definitely could do at this moment
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