Re:Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed fo...
by ericd on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:13PM
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Doesn’t that just mean we don’t definitively know the vast majority of the causal factors? Which is not at all the same as saying we know it’s not genetically determined?
Re:Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed fo...
by pcrh on Monday December 30, 2019 @06:35PM
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Depends on the weight you assign to "just". At the current level of knowledge it would mean that genetics is not an important contributor to the differences in "intelligence" between individuals in the general population.
What the important factors are is obviously an interesting question.
Accounting for 2.5% of the intelligence variation through genetics does lead to the conclusion that 97.5% of high IQ is not accounted for by (known) genetic variation.