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A comment on Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf] by Dirlewanger on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @07:52AM (#25569269)
How is "being smart" a genetic lottery? Are you serious? That brings up all sorts of implications with race and whatnot. "Being smart" is often a proxy for the things the GP mentions: strong stable family, access to good schooling, and a sprinkle of luck.
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Re:Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf] by sanxiyn on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @07:55AM (#25569294)
Heritability of IQ is >50%, and IQ is a good measure of smartness.
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Re:Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf] by afuchs on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @08:14AM (#25569438)
The previous comment's argument appears to be that heritability of "being smart" is not strictly limited to genetic factors, that measures of "smartness" such as an IQ score also measure other factors that are not strictly related to genetics
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Re:Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf] by PeterisP on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @09:25AM (#25569971)
Heritability and genetic factors are overlapping but distinct things - for example, socioeconomic status influences many aspects, is hereditary but not genetic.
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Re:Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf] by sanxiyn on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @09:46AM (#25570159)
Heritability is in fact entirely genetic. It is estimated by comparing monozygotic twins with dizygotic twins.
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