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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I am reminded of regimes like Pol Pot where, if you wore glasses, they figured you were an Intellectual who would probably cause trouble, so they killed you.
The Left doesn’t really like smart people. They like people who think of themselves as smart. A crucial distinction.
I heard somewhere that these companies are selling their gene databases to Fed.gov
What better way to track, monitor and predict of citizens, and also find the networks among them?
...and required!
In the year 2525
You’ll pick your son,pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube...whoa-oh-ohh
So far all of these studies are ‘association’ studies, which have been notoriously flawed. At this point this is only speculative sensationalism.
“DNA studies are rayciss” in 3... 2... 1...
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>> “In the year 2525” <<
If man is still alive, if Hildabeast can survive...
I suggest delayed gratification is part and parcel of good work ethic but I understand if some might see that as moving the goalpost.
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I should add that the delay involves a bigger reward.
Get a piece of candy now, or get two pieces in half an hour.
What I have noticed is that people with really high IQ’s tend to be the last person to have any common sense when it comes to politics or moral decisions. They may be smart enough to calculate how to land a rocket on Mars and yet vote for Obama and follow anifia.
What I have noticed is that people with really high IQ’s tend to be the last person to have any common sense when it comes to politics or moral decisions. They may be smart enough to calculate how to land a rocket on Mars and yet vote for Obama and follow antifa.
Yep, worked with a mensa women, odd and not that bright on common sense.
You are playing in the margins there. Very few people have an IQ of 80 or 180.
The point is, no DNA test is going to tell you if a hard working person with a 100 IQ will be more successful than a lazy person with a 115 IQ. Similarly, no test will tell whether a sober person with a 110 IQ will be more successful than a drunk with a 125 IQ.
But wasn’t Pol Pot an intellectual too? He studied at Sorbonne University in Paris, didn’t he? He should have been principled and killed himself.
Actually, there are a lot of people with IQs of ~80 (or lower). Roughly 15% of the US population, in fact. There are not many at 180, though, that is for certain. And yes, an IQ test result of 110 or 125 can't guarantee performance (although your example is smaller % of population than my 80 IQ), it massively increases the odds - but those are still for relatively close IQs in the scheme of things. How about a 95 IQ (just a hair below average) vs a 125? The person with 95 IQ will need to work probably 3-5x as hard to get a phd as someone with 125.
I actually did that test once.
I took an IQ test sober, then had four drinks and took a very similar IQ test.
My IQ as expected, went down by 20 points. I was surprised the decrease was that small.
“What I have noticed is that people with really high IQ’s ....”
I’m curious how you know peoples’ IQs ????
Once people start breeding per their intellectual abilities, Leftism will die out within two generations...
AI will result in a massively overproductive industrial and servicing economy, making a good chunk of the population superfluous, I mean, moreso than now. ;^)
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