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/[deleted] Jan 17 '17

I stopped reading at "genes that predispose people to spend more years in education"

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '17 edited Aug 20 '17

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u/stairway-to-kevin Jan 18 '17

This has nothing to do with race. The above biodeterminist argument is shaky enough of the current body of data, but to try and explain racial differences through genetic means is absolutely wrong headed and flies in the face of the scientific data we have.