/sci/ - Science & Math

https://www.newstatesman.com/2018/04/iq-trap-how-study-genetics-could-transform-education

like it or not, genetics is going to enter the educational arena, and we need to have a sober, informed discussion about it. “it is vital that we have regulations in place for the use of genetic information in education and that we prepare legal, social and ethical cases for how it could and should be used.”

The era of genetic forecasting of intelligence and ability is, then, already upon us. We now need to grapple with what that might mean for educational policy. “I believe that GPSs will be a real game-changer for education and provide a realistic and practical way of using genetics in the classroom,”

It’s an uncomfortable thought, but the evidence seems clear: “SES is partly heritable,” Asbury and Plomin say. Genes can explain 40 per cent of the variability in people’s job-related status, and 30 per cent of income differences. In a 2016 study using GPSs, Plomin and colleague Eva Krapohl found that about half of the correlation between educational achievement and SES of British 16-year-olds could be ascribed to genetic factors.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/04/15/europe-see-first-genetically-engineered-patients-using-gene/

Seems like maybe the whole eugenics thing had a point. Genetics seem to matter. Perhaps some people used eugenics as an excuse to massacre people and the fact it was before we knew what DNA was should be a clue it was bullshit.