The authors are much more cautious than Mike in their characterization of the implications of the study … briefly 11% is too large to ignore and there is much more work to be done.
Jim From: Christopher Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca] Sent: 25-Jul-18 10:29 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) <tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu> Subject: Re: [tips] The Genetic Theory of Educational Achievement Is about 90% Horse Manure! Household income is incredibly highly skewed. Assuming they obliviously used a linear coefficient to obtain the 7% figure, it is probably a severe under-estimate of the true size of the effect. Chris ….. Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 43.773897°, -79.503667° chri...@yorku.ca<mailto:chri...@yorku.ca> http://www.yorku.ca/christo ………………………………... On Jul 25, 2018, at 1:58 PM, Michael Palij <m...@nyu.edu<mailto:m...@nyu.edu>> wrote: At least for White Europeans. A masive study using genomic info as a predictor of educational achievement showed that genes accounted for only about 11% of the difference in years of education. The Scientist Mag has a layperson friendly description of the study published in the journal "Nature Genetics". See: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/genes-explain-about-11-percent-of-differences-in-years-of-education-64552 There are links in the article to additional sources. So, I guess this pretty much undermines "g" or single factor theories of intelligence (assuming intelligence drives educational achievement as certain theorists assert). In addition, household income accounts for only 7% of the variance in the differences which some might consider a unexpected low amount. I guess this all goes to show that your genetic ancestry (sorry Galton) nor wealth/poverty are the most important factors in academic acheivemnt, like getting a Ph.D. or other advanced degree. Now, I just hope the results are replicable. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu<mailto:m...@nyu.edu> P.S. To Miguel: don't worry about the tipos. ;-) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: chri...@yorku.ca<mailto:chri...@yorku.ca>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=52571 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-52571-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-52571-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca<mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=3229968.90f21a83d5f62f052ba84a49e2f91291&n=T&l=tips&o=52574 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-52574-3229968.90f21a83d5f62f052ba84a49e2f91...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-52574-3229968.90f21a83d5f62f052ba84a49e2f91...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=52577 or send a blank email to leave-52577-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
