Quillette magazine, sometimes mistaken for a science journal, published this one. You can tell by the review's embrace of what are still emerging results from a fast developing field as proof of old prejudices.
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We ( by which I mean me) have known the basic results for decades., The detailed genetics , genetic risk scores and such, is the only new part. I follow this work. Maybe you don't.
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But why do you follow this work seeing as you do not believe that anything truly new or interesting can come out of it and you "have known the basic results for decades"? That's not how science works is it?
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I didn't say nothing new could come from it. We, which means not you, have known about the strength of genetic influences and the unimportance of family influences for many years, from adoption & twin studies, etc. Now we know something about the genetic details.
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So maybe you or the Quillette sub-editor should have titled your article: "New book tells us nothing new about whether complex human outcomes are related to genetic differences"?
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As I said, the genetic risk score stuff is new. It disproves some old criticisms of twin studies, since it shows that very different methods produce similar estimates of heritability. Of course those precious criticisms were tendentious anyhow. And it opens new doors.
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Replying to @gcochran99 @BT_BXL and
Using ancient DNA, we should eventually be able to estimate intelligence in past civs.
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But your chosen people the Northern Europeans didn't have an ancient civilisation, and as the IQ scores you set so much store by have been increasing by 3 points per decade then maybe ancient civilisations had negative IQs...
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You know, you're not worth the powder and shot.
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That's true, but which past civ do you expect to have had the highest intelligence then? This should be good!
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Black Athens obv
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