Gene Network Effects on Brain Microstructure and Intellectual Performance Identified in 472 Twins
Oh boy. If they take this much further it will create a firestorm. What if they find that the Hypo-campus is larger in men than in women? What if it happens between black and white? I can see this study being quashed ASAP.
“She questions how robustly the experiments were designed, however, and says that the number of participants was relatively small for a study of this kind. “I would like to see the findings replicated, with further evidence from larger samples.”
This is the same junk research that filled the camps in Europe 70 years ago. And the research into intelligence, thought, behavioral genetics has Never produced anything concrete at all in those intervening years.
http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/GeneWatch/GeneWatchPage.aspx?pageId=384
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020212
The dark side of this phony research is crippling and killing people all over the place, especially those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder.
http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/656/9/
I give this project another 10-15 years to keep trying to validate its Social Darwinism before the public finally catches on, and by that time there’ll be another 10-15 clones of it in other places.
Variability of results on an IQ test is +/- 5 points for an individual. The 1.29 points is noise in the range of variability.