Stabilizing selection and diversity
Scott Alexander has a post up that is getting a lot of attention, Non-Cognitive Skills For Educational Attainment Suggest Benefits Of Mental Illness GenesNon-Cognitive Skills For Educational Attainment Suggest Benefits […]
Family values matters in education
Genetic and environmental variation in educational attainment: an individual-based analysis of 28 twin cohorts: We investigated the heritability of educational attainment and how it differed between birth cohorts and cultural–geographic regions. A classical twin design was applied to pooled data from 28 cohorts representing 16 countries and including 193,518 twins with information on educational attainment […]
Drawing on the slate of human nature
Some of you have been reading me since 2002. Therefore, you’ve seen a lot of changes in my interests (and to a lesser extent, my life…no more cat pictures because my cats died). Whereas today I incessantly flog Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human […]
Your impatience is in your genes! (well, some of it)
Nature Neuroscience has a short communication which is very intriguging, Genome-wide association study of delay discounting in 23,217 adult research participants of European ancestry. How’d they get such a large sample size? Collaborating with our friends at 23andMe. That being said, the abstract leaves a little to be desired: Delay discounting (DD), the tendency to […]
Your impatience is in your genes! (well, some of it)
Nature Neuroscience has a short communication which is very intriguging, Genome-wide association study of delay discounting in 23,217 adult research participants of European ancestry. How’d they get such a large sample size? Collaborating with our friends at 23andMe. That being said, the abstract leaves a little to be desired: Delay discounting (DD), the tendency to […]
Liberals will never disappear (neither will atheists)
In Quillette Hrishikesh Joshi and Jonny Anomaly* ask Are Liberals Dying Out? Since the piece has been shared a fair amount (judging by my Twitter timeline), I thought I should respond to why I don’t think that is a major concern. Let me jump to their last paragraph: Nevertheless, despite cultural trends, the best available […]