In his new book, Blueprint, and elsewhere in his recent writings, Robert Plomin has repeated a striking claim about the causal properties of DNA, in the form of polygenic risk scores:   GPSs are unique predictors in […]

(Longer version of article published at: https://leapsmag.com/the-shiny-and-potentially-dangerous-new-tool-for-predicting-human-behavior/) Posted here with permission) Imagine a world in which pregnant parents could go to the doctor and obtain a simple inexpensive genetic test of their unborn child that would

Charles Murray and I were going back and forth yesterday about the future of polygenic scores, especially as they might be applied in the schools. Murray, as always, looks to a future (now moved back

Charles Murray’s new book, Human Diversity, is out today. I will write a few blog posts about it over the next few weeks. First, a general note about how I am going to approach the book.

Reactions to my post yesterday about Human Diversity mostly involved my invocation of the idea of genetic determinism, henceforth GD. Please define “genetic determinism”. — Yeyo (@RealYeyoZa) January 29, 2020 https://t.co/DCi0Dz6qoc — hbd chick – #FFCE

I have more to say about Plomin’s use of my ideas in Blueprint, but for now I want to start at the beginning and write about the book and the ideas in contains.  The obvious

Last week, after the publication of EA3, Cecile Janssens tweeted about another GWAS she had come across. The new low in GWAS: “Further loci were identified for regular attendance at a sports club or gym

I have been planning to spend a week or so blogging about Robert Plomin’s new book, “Blueprint.” The first post was going to be about the title, but that is going to have to wait

Posted at 15:16h in Uncategorized by Eric Turkheimer 0 Comments One of my many shortcomings as a blogger is that it takes me a long time to think things through.  I tend to react to

Race Differences in IQ: The Limitations of Empirical Evidence This is the first of a series of blog posts about race and intelligence. My opinions on this topic are, I think, the least popular arguments