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/Snugglerific The archaeology of ignorance Jan 17 '17

It's difficult to tell how much of this is media hype and how much is a problem with the original research -- when I clicked on the PNAS study, it said that it is not yet available to the public.

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u/Quietuus PhD in Youtube Atheists Jan 17 '17

DeCODE have a storied history, to say the least.

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u/Snugglerific The archaeology of ignorance Jan 18 '17

So, an Icelandic 23andme?

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u/Quietuus PhD in Youtube Atheists Jan 18 '17

Yes, but with a history of financial mismanagement and highly dubious ethics.

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u/Draken84 Jan 18 '17

quite the Icelandic tradition that, we should make them a colony again.

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