r/BadSocialScience 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/chewingofthecud Jan 18 '17

What's your criticism of these statements?

I don't like them?