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Genetics is remarkably lax about correlation != causation, maybe because they can't do experiments. This leads online amateurs to have a lot of overly confident

Genetics is remarkably lax about correlation != causation, maybe because they can't do experiments. This leads online amateurs to have a lot of overly confident opinions they got from eg twin studies, which are not nearly as reliable as they think. Imagine the kind of inaccurate results you'd get by comparing two versions of your code with GWAS instead of reading the commit history.

niemandhier 3y ago
Genetics does experiments all the time, and many of them are geared towards understanding causality. Knock-Out studies are all about determining the consequences of a genome change.
- dillydogg 3y ago
  They are probably talking about population genetics, which doesn't really allow for experiments
  - kjkjadksj 3y ago
    Of course it does. You can breed up thousands of flies in a few weeks or millions of yeast in a few days and validate all sorts of theory with your experimental design.
    - astrange 3y ago
      Can't do it to humans though.