Comparing ancient and modern genomes for cognitive ability variants

Re:Comparing ancient and modern genomes for cognitive abilit... by ZoeZoeBee on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @12:53PM (#13766257)

The article you linked to is paywalled, which offers the abstract, Infectious disease was the best predictor of average IQ. But the study appears to conflate infectious disease with parasite and offers no way to look at the data they used.

Correlation is not Causation: You might want to look at the prevalence of infectious diseases by race according to the CDC.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/healthdisparities/africanamerica...

Edit: Insert Numbers;

Black People make up 14% of US population and

45% of the total of HIV/Aids

62% of women with HIV/Aids

55% of Gonorrhea

Chalmydia: Black Women 5.2x more likely and Black men 7.3 times more likely as white people

38% of Syphilis cases Black Men and Women over 5 times as likely as white people

37% of TB cases Black people, and 87% of all reported TB cases occurred in racial and ethnic minorities

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Re:Comparing ancient and modern genomes for cognitive abilit... by nabla9 on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @01:50PM (#13766905)

You are supporting my argument with the evidence you provide.

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Re:Comparing ancient and modern genomes for cognitive abilit... by ZoeZoeBee on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @01:52PM (#13766936)

How so?

If the states with lower IQs have a higher percentage of African Americans than the other states, they will have a higher rate of infectious diseases due to the propensity of infectious diseases among that group with respect to others.

PS: The two states with the lowest rate of infectious diseases, Nevada and West Virginia are respectivelly the 2nd and 7th lowest IQ states. #1 lowest IQ, Hawaii was deemed an outlier because of latitude and excluded from the results of the study you linked to.

http://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/2016-annual-re...

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