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Very interesting. Though I'm not finding it overly surprising based on everything I've read on effects of environment and nurture on growth and potential. Few
by aik 14y ago
Very interesting. Though I'm not finding it overly surprising based on everything I've read on effects of environment and nurture on growth and potential.
Few snippets I found interesting:
"These and our other results, together with the failure to date of whole-genome association studies to find genes associated with g, are consistent with the view that g is a highly polygenic trait on which common genetic variants individually have only small effects."
"By far the most plausible explanation for failures to replicate reported SNP-g (single-nucleotide
polymorphisms) associations in our three studies, however, is that the original studies whose findings we sought to replicate did not have sufficient sample sizes—and not because of any error in design or execution."
"Our results add IQ to the list of phenotypes that must be approached with great caution when considering published molecular genetic associations... Failing to exercise such caution may hamper scientific progress by allowing for the proliferation of potentially false results, which may then influence the research agendas of scientists who do not realize that the associations they take as a starting point for their efforts may not be real... And the dissemination of false results to the public may lead to incorrect perceptions about the state of knowledge in the field, especially knowledge concerning genetic variants that have been described as “genes for” traits on the basis of unintentionally inflated estimates of effect size and statistical significance."
- bromang 14y agowhy? how is your previous reading about the "effects of environment and nurture on growth and potential" related to the quoted passages?