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Note that a gene "against university success" does not necessarily have to be related to anything you understand as a part of education (e.g. intelligence, cons
by Viliam1234 8y ago
Note that a gene "against university success" does not necessarily have to be related to anything you understand as a part of education (e.g. intelligence, conscientiousness, conformity).
For example, imagine that universities are discriminating against... let's use a completely random example here... Asians. In such case, if you measure how individual genes relate to university success, it will turn out that statistically, genes for being Asian are negatively correlated with university success. But that doesn't say anything about Asians' ability to learn or follow instructions, only how the current system is treating them.
Or if you take a country where women are not allowed to study at a university, or course the sexual Y chromosome will be among the ones most strongly correlated with university success.
So even if you find out that a certain gene is good or bad for university success, you still don't know whether this is about what the gene does, or about how the academic establishment treats people having the gene.