Overplayed. You can predict much more of the variance of ed attain straight from socio-economic measures at age 5. Like 4x more. See work of Saez at UC Berkeley.
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In the samples studied, parental education and income together (which is how SES is often operationalized) explain less than twice as much as the polygenic scores. And SES is of course a heavily genetically confounded variable.pic.twitter.com/BXwWisiqEq
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For those liking the tweet, I hope they understand a pseudo-R isn’t in a cross sectional association study does not a causal claim make.
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Polygenic scores are ”assigned” at conception, so it’s not really cross-sectional. Causal claims always come from theory which is strong in this case.
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Haven’t read the other literature, eh? That ‘confounded’ is an understatement. The time point difference doesn’t really illuminate the link between the variables - just places a sequence.
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I know the literature well. Polygenic prediction is just another way of showing an effect that has been well established in previous twin and adoption research.
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Happy to have the debate with real people, full references, claims, etc. I’ll pass on continuing with an anonymous tweeter account.
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At this point it just seems like the cognitive science community is easing their way up to the great unspeakable truth to keep people's heads from exploding.
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This will ruffle some feathers ... nice!
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Not really. Just asking what someones parents do is more predictive.
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That could be a problem for someone purporting to demonstrate 100% nature. But nobody says that. On the other hand, there are lots of people that hold to a near 100% nurture viewpoint. It's the backtop to disparate impact logic, after all.
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Lovely! How does it all work together/interact with the environment, including epigenetic enviro/inherited traits from mom/dad?
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Stay in school for the rest of your life kids. The
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What does this mean stated simply?
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I've seen this study posted with the opposite commentary. I guess I need to read the paper.
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What does SNP stand for?
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Single Nucleotide Polymorphism. Mutations.
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Nice N!
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