/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11308723
Forgot my crucial WebM

>>11099770
>Full belief in 19th century Russian conspiracy theories
>Full belief that the NPC meme is an accurate model for real humans
>Neither of these things has any evidence and both of them align with the political views of the poster
Shouldn't you be in your containment board?

>>11054911
Just looked up a few of those SNPs and couldn't find anything about increased/decreased intelligence so presumably that info comes from the references.
I DID find someone posting this image but in text form (with the same references) where they said these genes affect various things in the brain, although they didn't say how they affect it or what they actually do.

The second reference is just a big catalog of gene occurrence so doesn't say much about gene effects.

Now the first reference. They did a 'genome-wide association study' looking at the total number of years of education for each individual, looking at number of years in education and test scores for European descent individuals. From this they found some leading candidates for SNPs that might explain the differences in EduYears/scores between these individuals.

The pic says 'with genome-wide levels of significance'; failing to mention that 'genome-wide' means exclusively Europeans.
Hopefully anyone reading this with some scientific literacy knows that this does not mean that those SNPs are 'known to increase/decrease intelligence' (as measured by years in education) for all humans everywhere. Furthermore, the effects of SNPs on phenotypes can be affected by the environment. Both these facts are acknowledged in that reference:
"Because educational institutions vary across places and time, the effects of specific SNPs may vary across environments. Consistent with such heterogeneity, for the lead SNPs, we reject the joint null hypothesis of homogeneous cohort-level effects."
"Due to gene-by-environment interactions, the heritability of EduYears could also differ depending on the institutional environments faced by cohort respondents. We found some evidence of this in the cross-cohort analysis, as income inequality (measured with top income shares) was associated with increasing heritability. "

Why am I not surprised that this image was being dishonest?