Re:What really drives the poor
by tokenadult on Saturday June 25, 2011 @09:37PM
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A press release? I'm a lot more familiar with the relevant peer-reviewed literature than that.
The self-promoted study you kindly linked has many of the usual problems with study design
http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
common in studies cited by the popular press about IQ. Try again when you can cite something meaningful, better peer-reviewed, and more on point to the subject of this thread (causes of poverty).
Thompson's work is peer-reviewed. Of course, that does not mean it does not fall into some of the experimental issues pointed out by Norvig. His works certainly has no link with poverty.
You paste that link over and over again. I do not think it means what you think it means. And if you look at Thompson's 200+ papers, including the linked one that is the subject of the press release, you might be enlightened.
For whatever ideological reason you've convinced yourself that genes have nothing to do with brains, intelligence, or wealth.
www.loni.ucla.edu/~thompson/HARDI-IQ/hardiIQ-PR.html
He and his colleagues can predict IQ from a 3D brain scan, a concrete dataset of voxels; it is not just about correlations between relatives any more.
Read his numerous papers and those of his peers; the heritability of intelligence is an empirical, easily verifiable fact based on direct scientific measurement. The observed associations between brain structure, inheritance, intelligence, and income exist even if one refuses to look at them.