DNA tests for IQ are coming, but it might not be smart to take one

MIT Technology Review ^ | April 2, 2018 | Antonio Regalado

[P.O.E.]

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

[minnesota_bound]

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.

[Bellflower]

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?

[Intolerant in NJ]

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...kind of ironic since a big push for the development of IQ testing originally came to allow prediction of which kids would do best in school - if they end up getting reliable DNA predictors of how well kids will do, they can forget about how well they can get IQ correlations and go directly to their predictions without the middle man.....

[SunkenCiv]

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.

[pabianice]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/videoplayer/vi2611282201?ref_=tt_pv_vi_aiv_1

[Trillian]

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 ;)

[ABN 505]

Minority Report!

[ABN 505]

Look at all the geniuses in Hollywood, they're so smart they keep making movies and TV shows nobody wants to see!

[antidisestablishment]

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.

[litehaus]

“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...