Comments on: The heritability debate, again http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/04/01/the-heritability-debate-again/ Genetics Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 By: MK http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/04/01/the-heritability-debate-again/#comment-2608 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:29:21 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=1232#comment-2608 Kaufmann also waded into whether there are hereditary differences between different ethnic groups and nationalities.

http://www.iqscorner.com/2010/08/flynn-effect-and-iq-disparities-among.html

This prompted a response here.

http://www.iqscorner.com/2010/09/williams-comments-on-scott-barry.html

]]> By: Caledonian http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/04/01/the-heritability-debate-again/#comment-2607 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:39:57 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=1232#comment-2607

My blue eyes were 100% determined by my genes,

Were they, really? My understanding is that we can’t yet determine whether a given person will have blue eyes even if we know which alleles of the relevant genes they’ve inherited.

]]> By: expeedee http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/04/01/the-heritability-debate-again/#comment-2587 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 23:58:16 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=1232#comment-2587 The more we attempt to engineer environmental egalitarianism, the more we push up heritability. You cannot win. The facts are the facts, and I wish that politics could be put aside for the interest of science.

]]> By: Fredrik http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/04/01/the-heritability-debate-again/#comment-2577 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:49:31 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=1232#comment-2577 OT: Natural selection at work in Sweden,

http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/krav-pa-nya-kostrad

Google translate will give you a pretty good idea what’s going on.

]]> By: jb http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/04/01/the-heritability-debate-again/#comment-2575 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 01:23:43 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=1232#comment-2575 I don’t read the Huffington Post that often, but I did notice this article, and it irritated me.

Aside from the obvious political agenda (minimizing the connection between heredity and IQ is always popular!), it seems very misleading to make a blanket assertion that heritability can vary between 0.00 and 1.00. My blue eyes were 100% determined by my genes, and short of gouging my eyes out at birth nothing in the environment was going to change that. I’m sure there are plenty of other traits like this, as well as traits where heritability can be pushed down from 1.00, but never anywhere close to 0.00.

]]> By: ben g http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/04/01/the-heritability-debate-again/#comment-2572 Sat, 02 Apr 2011 02:17:36 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=1232#comment-2572 It wouldn’t be necessary to do so many heritability studies if psychologists and sociologists would stop operating under the assumption that their trait of interest is determined by the environment.

Even when they say, like Kaufman, that genes matter, they don’t take it fully into account in their hypothesis generation. The heritability research forces them to.

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