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Re:Stanford CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview by Blazespinnaker on Sunday January 14, 2018 @11:41PM (#16148522)
To imagine that genetics do not play a role in intelligence (or any talent) is horribly naive, otherwise we could teach our dogs to program.
Re:Stanford CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview by sulam on Monday January 15, 2018 @09:26AM (#16150674)
And it’s illegal to try and screen on anything except ability to do the job. Be very careful if you find yourself thinking in terms of software engineering interviews being a general intelligence test — you are setting yourself up for a discrimination suit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.

Re:Stanford CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview by Myrmornis on Monday January 15, 2018 @01:15AM (#16148854)
As you clearly demonstrate, intelligence has a genetic basis. However, it does not follow that there is variation among humans at the relevant genetic loci. The variation may have become fixed in an ancestral population of modern humans.
Re:Stanford CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview by Myrmornis on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:25PM (#16162783)
What I gave there is an absolutely standard assessment of the situation from the point of view of population genetics. Of course intelligence "is genetic" in some sense: that's why dogs and cucumbers are less intelligent than humans for most definitions of "intelligent". The question is about the phenotypic significance of current intraspecific genetic variation.