I mean this seriously, your response misses Turkheimer’s whole point.
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I think with genetics the causal case is something approximating open and shut
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Come on, you know better than that. Do you really need to go over the redhead example again?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @bechhof
if the argument is "hurr durr you can dye your hair red" yes you can and also (i) interventions on more-basal biological features tend to be well-understood to the point of triviality and (ii) knowledge of biological parameter space is vastly closer to complete than it is in econ
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>presupposing that education is upstream of intelligence roafl
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Joint causation makes things much more difficult than first intuitions tell you
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fortunately for us in the stage game of evolution causality is unidirectional, barring CRISPR and ionizing radiation
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This is totally irrelevant. For the redhead example to never matter, you’d need zero effects of any environmental variation on whatever outcomes (eg iq) you care about. Read the full Turkheimer post.
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that really depends on what sort of prediction ones trying to do, dont you think? and hoss its directly relevant to your "joint causality" claim education isnt systematically altering your somatic genome
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