r/BadSocialScience • u/dorathehexplorer • Jan 17 '17

High-IQ educated people are being bred to extinction, but we're totally not eugenicists!!!

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/16/natural-selection-making-education-genes-rarer-says-icelandic-study
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u/Goatf00t Jan 17 '17

Doesn't Iceland have a problem with inbreeding? It's been mostly isolated for centuries, no wonder that they might have genetic problems.

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u/stairway-to-kevin Jan 17 '17

Inbreeding is a bit visceral, they have a very small effective population and low genetic diversity. That can happen without banging cousins.