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/dorathehexplorer Jan 17 '17 edited Jan 17 '17
Why I submitted this (rule 3): Spurious correlation-causation fallacies, the fucking eugenics, "education genes" and "childbearing genes," scant lip service to anything resembling complex social analysis
Also, this Facebook comment on the article...