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They don't need to be, at sample sizes in the 100,000s. Most of these studies are not even using IQ tests but "years of education" which is a measure of IQ with
by MagnumOpus 9y ago
They don't need to be, at sample sizes in the 100,000s. Most of these studies are not even using IQ tests but "years of education" which is a measure of IQ with a laughably large standard error - but with very large sample sizes very precise estimates can be made of the effect of a particular SNA on the affected people's intelligence.
- makomk 9y agoUsing "years of education" as a measure seems like it might just end up measuring how well you can use genes to identify whether someone's of the right socioeconomic class to get their children into university. I can't really see any way around this.
- Houshalter 9y agoWell I believe they control for social status. And also a lot of other things, see gwern's comment above. In any case, I don't expect there to be genes that predict social class. And if there were, that would be super interesting in itself.
- parhurs 9y ago>I don't expect there to be genes that predict social class Genes for skin pigment >super interesting If you've never heard of inequality before, I guess
- Houshalter 9y agoBut they control for race, and picked results that generalize across different populations.