Thanks mairdie.
A year ago, no gene had ever been tied to performance on an IQ test. Since then, more than 500 have, thanks to gene studies involving more than 200,000 test takers.
Posted on 04/02/2018 6:59:34 AM PDT by mairdie
Ready for a world in which a $50 DNA test can predict your odds of earning a PhD or forecast which toddler gets into a selective preschool?
Robert Plomin, a behavioral geneticist, says that’s exactly what’s coming.
For decades genetic researchers have sought the hereditary factors behind intelligence, with little luck. But now gene studies have finally gotten big enough—and hence powerful enough—to zero in on genetic differences linked to IQ.
A year ago, no gene had ever been tied to performance on an IQ test. Since then, more than 500 have, thanks to gene studies involving more than 200,000 test takers. Results from an experiment correlating one million people’s DNA with their academic success are due at any time.
The discoveries mean we can now read the DNA of a young child and get a notion of how intelligent he or she will be, says Plomin, an American based at King’s College London, where he leads a long-term study of 13,000 pairs of British twins.
Plomin outlined the DNA IQ test scenario in January in a paper titled “The New Genetics of Intelligence,” making a case that parents will use direct-to-consumer tests to predict kids’ mental abilities and make schooling choices, a concept he calls precision education.
As of now, the predictions are not highly accurate. The DNA variations that have been linked to test scores explain less than 10 percent of the intelligence differences between the people of European ancestry who’ve been studied.
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In the year 6565
Ain’t gonna need no husband, won’t need no wife
You’ll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long black tube
In the year 7510
If God’s a-comin’ he ought to make it by then
Maybe he’ll look around himself and say
Guess it’s time for the Judgement day
I work with people who think they are the smartest but the customer who calls us only cares who has the correct answer to their problem and it isn’t the proclaimed smart guys who have it.
A lot of people who are truly brilliant can be not so smart in average ways. Albert Einstein, for instance, was said to have a hard time with simple adding.
The brain is such that sometimes when one part isn’t so good it compensates and another part becomes more brilliant. I wonder how this is reflected in “IQ” tests? Are the amazingly brilliant being passed over because their brilliance is in a limited area?
Thanks mairdie.
A year ago, no gene had ever been tied to performance on an IQ test. Since then, more than 500 have, thanks to gene studies involving more than 200,000 test takers.
People that can figure out patterns can do really well on IQ tests. I did really well on one once. I jokingly told my husband that after having kids, it’s gone down a lot since then ;)
Minority Report!
True, but you can get into MENSA! LOL
Gattaca is one of the best movies portraying this principle. Too many people today think there’s some magic bullet to success—there is, but they don’t want to hear it: hard work and pushing through repeated failures.
“Intelligence and hard work is a combination hard to beat.
My readings on cognitive science say that being able to delay gratification is a better predictor of future success than IQ, anyway. The gibmedats don’t do well in either regard.”
I depreciate your remark muchly !!....LOL...
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