Explaining 11-13% of the variance in educational attainment. Impressive study. Sounds about right. So no reason to rule out schooling based on your family's prior performance. Glad I had a sense of this in life already. 



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The percentages here are remarkably low — one at 0.3% — which would seem to undermine the oft repeated notion that intellectual achievement is overwhelmingly genetically determined, no?
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Polygenic - key word here.
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Good thing they don’t actually list the relevant SNPs. Designer brainy babies?- medical tourism boom coming soon.
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It will be much more complicated than that for the forseeable future. Complex tradeoffs with every allele.
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@SamHarrisOrg I suppose eventually we'll just know at birth whether we need to start a 529 plan or not. Genetics are the ultimate spoiler.. -
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Consistent with prior work. So?
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The PDF is behind a paywall. The data isn't openly accessible.
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You can read it but not download. "Online access to this article has been provided by Springer Nature SharedIt."
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