Most Reported Genetic Associations with General Intelligence Are Probably False Positives
Not going to paste the article in for legal reasons, but the abstract and the results and discussion sections are worth reading. Too bad Gundam was banned- I'd have loved to see his excuse-mongering after reading the results.
The basic idea is that almost all the previous studies linking "g" (general intelligence) to various snps (which are various DNA sequences,) when reproduced with much higher sample pools, yield mostly false positive correlations, so the implications are that the old data making strong correlations between intelligence and particular sequences isn't reliable, and that intelligence itself is even more complex and multifaceted than previously thought.
Not going to paste the article in for legal reasons, but the abstract and the results and discussion sections are worth reading. Too bad Gundam was banned- I'd have loved to see his excuse-mongering after reading the results.
The basic idea is that almost all the previous studies linking "g" (general intelligence) to various snps (which are various DNA sequences,) when reproduced with much higher sample pools, yield mostly false positive correlations, so the implications are that the old data making strong correlations between intelligence and particular sequences isn't reliable, and that intelligence itself is even more complex and multifaceted than previously thought.
