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The studies trying to find the link between genetics and IQ are flawed in that they don't have a way to handle the interactions between genes. Instead they are
by whatshisface 5y ago
The studies trying to find the link between genetics and IQ are flawed in that they don't have a way to handle the interactions between genes. Instead they are based on correlations.
If you will be good at baseball if you have A and B, OK with neither, but terrible with only one, those genes will be identified in most studies as having nothing to do with baseball, maybe even identified as harmful.
I can offer a concrete example. Autism is more often found in high-IQ families, but itself is associated with decreased IQ. That suggests one case where either A and B alone are harmful, having neither makes you fine (and unlikely to bear children with A or B), and having both makes you smart.
I am not sure if we want people to figure out how to make connections involving specific genes, because a lot of us benefit from living in a world where we can game LeetCode by working longer and harder in a way that's unrelated to what Google is looking for.