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I always though that if the skills of a person are highly shaped by the genes, that would have a reflection in body traits. So basically you could have a good i

I always though that if the skills of a person are highly shaped by the genes, that would have a reflection in body traits. So basically you could have a good idea of the mental skills and personality of anyone just analyzing the body and other external features. One of the things that lead me to this theory is how mental illness do affect the body features. But even if I am right in this theory, this only gives you one part of the person. Because the environment and the own decisions of a person shapes them. For example, even if a person if the perfect fit for the job position based on the analysis, and the analysis is right, the succeed of that person also depends in the attitude. If the person has developed a natural laziness over the life it wont be productive at the job. And the opposite can be true, a less genetical predisposed person which has work hard during all the life could be a much better match for the job. EDIT: when I said the skills are encoded in genes and also expressed in body traits it doesn't mean gender or race, it could irrelevant things as the length of the fingers, or the way you walk.

whateverman3 9y ago
This is only true if the two genes are correlated in success. I have faith such traits do exist, and many of them, but I am not immediately convinced most traits interesting to businesses would be revealed this way. Also, your example of laziness is classic thinking yourself out of quality employees: laziness is good for identifying waste and inefficiency and for creating scaling automation. So it's not even clear if "laziness" is interesting without context to businesses. Of course, it could also entail lack of work ethic.
- jorgemf 9y ago
  My point is that there are more factors that the biological capabilities (or whatever an algorithms says) to be good at something.
hycaria 9y ago
> One of the things that lead me to this theory is how mental illness do affect the body features. Care to back up this claim?
- jorgemf 9y ago
  For example the Down syndrome is an alteration in the chromosomes that affect to the intellectual abilities and also the facial features
  - hycaria 9y ago
    Yeah but it affects a lot of other features (ie hearth defect). I don't really see distinctive features amongst bipolar or schizophrenic people... That seems like a rather generous extrapolation from one specific example
    - jorgemf 9y ago
      For me it is a theory that needs validation. I am not an expert in genetics but I think we still have a long way to know how the genes map to features. > I don't really see distinctive features amongst bipolar or schizophrenic people... What you don't see them doesn't mean they are not there. It could be something subtle. If one change in chromosome leads to a lot of mental and physical changes it could mean things like people with better maths skills grows faster the nails. And I repeat, this is a theory for me that still needs to be probed or at least more data. But I wouldn't discard it so fast. What this company is doing is going somehow in this direction. What do you think about the company of the article?

whateverman3 9y ago

This is only true if the two genes are correlated in success. I have faith such traits do exist, and many of them, but I am not immediately convinced most traits interesting to businesses would be revealed this way. Also, your example of laziness is classic thinking yourself out of quality employees: laziness is good for identifying waste and inefficiency and for creating scaling automation. So it's not even clear if "laziness" is interesting without context to businesses. Of course, it could also entail lack of work ethic.

jorgemf 9y ago
My point is that there are more factors that the biological capabilities (or whatever an algorithms says) to be good at something.

hycaria 9y ago

> One of the things that lead me to this theory is how mental illness do affect the body features. Care to back up this claim?

jorgemf 9y ago
For example the Down syndrome is an alteration in the chromosomes that affect to the intellectual abilities and also the facial features
- hycaria 9y ago
  Yeah but it affects a lot of other features (ie hearth defect). I don't really see distinctive features amongst bipolar or schizophrenic people... That seems like a rather generous extrapolation from one specific example
  - jorgemf 9y ago
    For me it is a theory that needs validation. I am not an expert in genetics but I think we still have a long way to know how the genes map to features. > I don't really see distinctive features amongst bipolar or schizophrenic people... What you don't see them doesn't mean they are not there. It could be something subtle. If one change in chromosome leads to a lot of mental and physical changes it could mean things like people with better maths skills grows faster the nails. And I repeat, this is a theory for me that still needs to be probed or at least more data. But I wouldn't discard it so fast. What this company is doing is going somehow in this direction. What do you think about the company of the article?