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Re:Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar by hobs on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @09:56AM (#18806508)
Associations of candidate genes with psychological traits and other traits studied in the social sciences should be viewed as tentative until they have been replicated in multiple large samples. Failing to exercise such caution may hamper scientific progress by allowing for the proliferation of potentially false results [… which may lead to] incorrect perceptions about the state of knowledge in the field, especially knowledge concerning genetic variants that have been described as “genes for” traits on the basis of unintentionally inflated estimates of effect size and statistical significance.[0][1]

[0]https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761143552...

[1]https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/intelligence-is-inherited-...

Not just unpopular, not supported by science.

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Re:Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar by tossaccount123 on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @10:12AM (#18806629)
your study is from 2012, newest research found strong correlation between certain genes and educational attainment, stronger than environmental factors like parents income[1]

your snopes article is about inheriting from mother alone, not parents

There IS also a significant difference between births based on income

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...

65 births per 1000 women vs 43 births per 1000 women

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/science/genes-education.h...

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