Everything in genetics is small effect sizes. That's just how genes seem to work.
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when you are looking at n target genes, index-scores, etc - as you work your way up to whole-genome association it can get impressive
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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.
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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.
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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.
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>lots to do with environment???? lol
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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.
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And yet in both of those countries everyone is shorter than the average person from the Netherlands.
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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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Replying to @quantian1 @LokiJulianus and
Why did the Dutch get to be so tall?
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it’s implicit bias against swedes... they know the dutch think they’re shorter and it stunts their growth. very sad!
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