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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Do your genes affect your GCSE grades?
« on: 22/08/2015 19:44:32 »
Until you have carried out a multiple regression study of a sufficiently large number of students you CANNOT truthfully say that inheritance plays a role in school test scores.
This is the Naked Scientist forum and not the Naked poorly researched superstition forum after all.
It behooves me to repeat , therefore, that only a ninny or a Tory would be feckless enough to say one way or another based on two (count 'em, 2) whole factors alone.
In my own time I have seen "common knowledge" like "black people need higher X-ray exposure" or "interracial marriage causes genetic defects" shown to be the inexcusably ignorant claptrap they are. This "research" carries the same stench as those.
For an example of that stench, why did this research include gender in studying school scores? They ignored everything else. One might almost believe they assumed that women inherit different academic aptitude than men. They are after all British -- from the same culture which totally ignored Rosalind Franklin's crucial contribution to the discovery of DNA structure.
This is the Naked Scientist forum and not the Naked poorly researched superstition forum after all.
It behooves me to repeat , therefore, that only a ninny or a Tory would be feckless enough to say one way or another based on two (count 'em, 2) whole factors alone.
In my own time I have seen "common knowledge" like "black people need higher X-ray exposure" or "interracial marriage causes genetic defects" shown to be the inexcusably ignorant claptrap they are. This "research" carries the same stench as those.
For an example of that stench, why did this research include gender in studying school scores? They ignored everything else. One might almost believe they assumed that women inherit different academic aptitude than men. They are after all British -- from the same culture which totally ignored Rosalind Franklin's crucial contribution to the discovery of DNA structure.