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Houshalter on May 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence

Well I believe they control for social status. And also a lot of other things, see gwern's comment above. In any case, I don't expect there to be genes that predict social class. And if there were, that would be super interesting in itself.

parhurs on May 23, 2017 [–]

>I don't expect there to be genes that predict social class

Genes for skin pigment

>super interesting

If you've never heard of inequality before, I guess

Houshalter on May 23, 2017 | [–]

But they control for race, and picked results that generalize across different populations.

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