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Re:What Was the Ted Talk? by ImaCake on Monday February 07, 2022 @07:43AM (#30244021)
> Isn't it possible however, that James and Sarah would have had a child who would have become another Mozart, or Einstein?

At least genetically this is unlikely. Several hundred genetic variants explain a good fraction of intelligence and a random mixing of Sarah and James’ variants will include ones that increase and decrease intelligence. Getting a really good random mix of several hundred variants is unlikely. That is, intelligence regresses towards the mean.

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Re:What Was the Ted Talk? by kergonath on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:18AM (#30245156)
That is a lot of pseudoscientific bullshit, if you don’t have the stats to prove it.
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Re:What Was the Ted Talk? by ImaCake on Monday February 07, 2022 @10:22PM (#30254558)
How is it bullshit?

There is plenty of science to backup the claim that intelligence is heritable [0]. From there the rest of what I said is basic population genetics statistics.

0. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29335645/

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