Study has nothing to do with genes. It's just finding that income shocks don't lower teenage incarceration rates in Sweden.
Poverty doesn't cause crime. Genes influence both poverty and crime. New study of 500,000+ Swedish people.https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21613303-disturbing-study-link-between-incomes-and-criminal-behaviour-have-and …
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@AmirSariaslan, seems to care that the article misrepresents the paper. if anything, conclusions go against gene story - 3 more replies
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Well they undermine the central dogma of Leftist criminology and sociology for the last century. So it'll be disturbing to some.
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The article suggests two possibilities: genetic and environmental. It still allows for an entirely environmental explanation.pic.twitter.com/EJi2mTQcIJ
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Except that both poverty & criminality show univariate heritability, so are likely to have some genetic as well as phenotypic correlation.
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The idea that genes cause crime is so orthogonal to anything useful as to be moronic.
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It'd hugely practical in guiding mate choice.
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Well, in Sweden anyway
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I think the genes are coincidental. You learn poor money habits and work ethic at home. It's difficult to break but can be done.
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