Lung cancer is one of the biggest correlation found here. And smoking is pretty genetic (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15971021). Other things might be affected by diet and BMI, but that's also highly genetic.
This study also controlled for socioeconomic status.
Really? I remember a few adoption study where they found the opposite: They measured the IQs of genetically identical twins that were adopted into different families, and found that family environment mattered a hell of a lot.
I can't find the study that I remember, but here are some adjacent studies that have done similar things with similar results:
http://sciencenordic.com/adopted-children-have-higher-iqs-th...
Their study was a large undertaking studying the differences in black/interracial/white children who were all adopted by wealthy white families in Minnesota. It found that at age 7 the difference in IQ between a adopted white child and adopted black child was 20.1 points. At age 17 this changed to 17.8 points. The difference for a half black child and a white child was 6.1 at age 7, and 8.3 at age 17.
The goal of the study was to show the opposite of what it ended up showing. Consequently many individuals, including the authors of the study themselves, have tried to argue that this is not evidence of a genetic link to IQ. Arguments against it have run the gamut from environmental factors from before the children were adopted (which was at less than 1 years old in all cases) to skin color causing environmental effects. These are certainly contributing factors, however they would undermine any and all results of the study - which is indicative of an after-the-fact effort to undermine their own results. In either case, that result certainly showed nothing like "family environment mattered a hell of alot."
The misunderstanding here probably comes from one questionably phrased sentence in that abstract, "Black and interracial children scored as well on IQ tests as adoptees in other studies." That is more clearly read as "Black and interracial children scored as well on IQ tests as black and interracial adoptees in other studies." In other words, they're comparing differences between 'same group' individuals and trying to see what determines the variance there. And they found that at a young age this is frequently related to environmental factors, whereas at older age genetics becomes dominant even among 'same 'group individuals. In the abstract's rather kinder phrasing, "Our interpretation of these results is that younger children are more influenced by differences among their family environments than older adolescents, who are freer to seek their own niches.".
The study itself is paywalled. And given the decades of controversy it sparked, the Wiki entry is quite expansive.
SciHub p, non-paywalled link: https://dacemirror.sci-hub.la/journal-article/c16af30ee6a2c0...
The ncbi link seems to support my hypothesis, maybe I'm missing something.
Although some people do make me wonder...
For one, with recent advances in genomics, we now realise that conclusions from twin studies in general aren't aging so well. And all the above don't really do genetics, they used seemingly close-knitted cohorts.
In themselves I find all the papers you pointed dubious at best, and more likely garbage. The experimental setups in all of these were rather weak to start with, and did not allow to discriminate between causation and correlation, and the authors all achieved/generalized conclusions that were not supported by their own data.
Our societies fascination and obstination with deriving things from IQ is, well, fascinating... No of these start with asking a question to understand a tractable and useful problem. They're all a my "d!ck is bigger than your d!ck" kind of ranking problem.
But why should we assume that just because they're correlated in this study, high IQ causes longer life expectancy?
Maybe the same early childhood circumstances (such as better nutrition) that led to measurably higher IQ also led to individuals being healthier / more robust later in life.
Maybe exposure to certain toxins that decrease IQ (say, lead) also tends to make certain cancers more likely.