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 Eugenics
 
-https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2020/02/20/discovery-institute-makes-hay-of-dawkins-tweet-and-a-geneticist-mistakenly-says-that-artificial-selection-wont-work-in-humans/
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+Footnote 4 to the introduction of Part III recaps the argument. If the black/white IQ gap in the U.S. were caused by racism, you'd predict that blacks would have higher IQs in countries where they're the ruling majority, like in Haiti or most of sub-Saharan Africa, but they don't. You might think racism affects IQ by means of its affect on socioeconomic status (SES), but adjusting for parental SES only diminishes the gap by a third. 
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+You might think that the tests are culturally biased, but if that were true, you'd expect the distortion
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+(And on the hereditarian model, parental SES could be caused by parental cognitive abilities.)
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+[vertical pleiotropy: LDL affects heart attack; vs. horizontal]
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+["tag" SNP]
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+https://www.unz.com/article/a-troublesome-intelligence/
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+https://www.unz.com/author/chanda-chisala/
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+[parental SES also tracks parental genes]
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+Murray says polygenic scores are like GDP ... I bet Ben and Michael would have something to say about that analogy!
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+Cognitive Enhancement and Network Effects: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11406-020-00189-3
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+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/y4bkJTtG3s5d6v36k/stupidity-and-dishonesty-explain-each-other-away