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Category Archives: Genetics
DNA Predicts Academic Achievement
REPORT: Scientists from King’s College London have used a new genetic scoring technique to predict academic achievement from DNA alone. This is the strongest prediction from DNA of a behavioural measure to date. The research shows that a genetic score … Continue reading
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Claims that US is a genetic melting pot appear overblown–if you’re white
Arvind Suresh writes in 2015: Wanting to know your ancestry is a powerful motivator that many DNA testing companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com have exploited for great profit. But apart from individual curiosity, genetic studies into our ancestry also … Continue reading
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Genes Account For Success, Though Not Happiness
From NewScientist: When Belsky and his colleagues looked at the genetic profiles of the New Zealanders, they found that those with higher polygenic scores not only had a greater education, but went on to achieve more in other ways. By … Continue reading
How Siddhartha Mukherjee gets The Gene wrong
Stuart Ritchie writes: But although Mukherjee is awed by the intelligence of geneticists, he doesn’t think much of scientific attempts to measure intelligence. Indeed, in one chapter he launches an all-out attack on IQ tests. Why study the genetics of … Continue reading
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The Hard Problem
Steve Sailer writes: In The Hard Problem, set in England in the first decade of the new century, his similarly old-fashioned heroine is beset instead by the self-confidence of her neo-Darwinian colleagues. The left is intellectually nugatory, and all the … Continue reading
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The New Star Wars Movie
Comments to Steve Sailer: * One good thing about the new Star Wars is the diversity. Most of the heroes are non-white while all of the villains are are white, thus reflecting the reality of the world. * Heredity gives … Continue reading
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Heredity Uber Alles
Steve Sailer writes: I finally saw the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie, which is much like the old Star Wars movie of 1977…. As with Harry Potter and many other recent blockbusters, the central theme remains Heredity Uber … Continue reading
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Gregory Cochran Reviews New Book On Iq – ‘Hive Mind’
Dr. Cochran writes: Garrett Jones has a new book out: Hive Mind. He argues that “while individual IQ scores predict our independent success moderately well, a country’s average score is a remarkable bellwether of its general prosperity.” Makes sense. I … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: Obama Is a Genetic Determinist When It Comes to Sports Talent
From Steve Sailer: On GoTrackTownUSA, 3 time All-American female distance runner Alexi Pappas writes: ALEXI PAPPAS: WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID By Alexi Pappas / TrackTown USA EUGENE, Ore. – My family stood together in the small waiting room just outside … Continue reading
Genes & Culture
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Since you are convinced this is genetic, you are missing the elephant in the room about Asians who have been in America for a long time which is that they tend to assimilate. I’ve yet … Continue reading