{"id":43177,"date":"2011-08-17T20:53:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T04:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=13562"},"modified":"2011-08-17T20:53:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T04:53:33","slug":"looking-for-a-few-good-145-i-q-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/17\/looking-for-a-few-good-145-i-q-individuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a few good 145+ I.Q. individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/08\/IQ.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13563\" title=\"IQ\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/08\/IQ.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"552\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above is the distribution of <strong>self-reported<\/strong> I.Q.s of the readers of this weblog according to the 2011 survey. I point this out because my friend Steve Hsu will be giving a <a href=\"http:\/\/infoproc.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/google-genetics-and-intelligence.html\">talk at Google later today<\/a>. Here are the details:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be giving a talk at Google tomorrow (Thursday August 18) at 5 pm. The slides are <a href=\"http:\/\/duende.uoregon.edu\/~hsu\/talks\/ggoogle.pdf\">here<\/a>. The video will probably be available on Google&#8217;s TechTalk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GoogleTechTalks\">channel<\/a> on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>The Cognitive Genomics Lab at BGI is using this talk to kick off the  drive for US participants in our intelligence GWAS. More information at  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cog-genomics.org\/\">www.cog-genomics.org<\/a>, including automatic qualifying standards for the study, which are set just above +3 SD. <strong>Participants will receive free genotyping and help with interpreting the results.<\/strong> (The functional part of the site should be live after August 18.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Title: <strong>Genetics and Intelligence<\/strong><\/em> <em><\/p>\n<p>Abstract:  How do genes affect cognitive ability? I begin with a  brief review of psychometric measurements of intelligence, introducing  the idea of a &#8220;general factor&#8221; or IQ score. The main results concern the  stability, validity (predictive power), and heritability of adult IQ.  Next, I discuss &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above is the distribution of self-reported I.Q.s of the readers of this weblog according to the 2011 survey. I point this out because my friend Steve Hsu will be giving a talk at Google later today. Here are the details:<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be giving a talk at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,4,82,1688,1683,360,418,1689],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior-genetics","category-genetics","category-genomics","category-high-i-q-genomics","category-i-q-genomics","category-personal-genomics","category-psychometrics","category-steve-hsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43177"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43203,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43177\/revisions\/43203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}