I often feel as though I am swimming upstream when I make the case that behavioral genetics is not headed for a golden future in which the genetics of intelligence and schizophrenia are understood all the way down to the genome. Why not? They are…
Less time for blogging the next couple of weeks, so some shorter posts…
First, a note from Twitter. Several people (eg Michel Nivard and Ruben Arslan) thought I was being a little “misleading” in my characterization of what GPS can do as opposed to twin and family studies. That may be; I can get carried away when I…
I said yesterday that GPS are basically an extension of twin and family studies, making it possible to use singletons to conduct the kind of research that used to require twins or other family members. Such research can be useful for some purposes but it…
Yesterday Paige Harden posted an excellent piece on the genetics of intelligence, and I agree with all of it. I have been meaning to write something about Genomewide Polygenic Scores myself, (GPS; I usually call them Polygenic Risk Scores, it’s the same thing if I…
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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 what ought to be immediate situations on Twitter a couple of months later. Which leads to long silences, and boring…
The main point of what I have written about race and intelligence in Vox and elsewhere concerns a misleading intuition about heritability and group differences—individual differences are uncontroversially heritable, why shouldn’t group differences be the same? This is exactly the argument that was adopted by…
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 I have ever made, and I have made a few unpopular…