CarlShulman comments on BHTV: Eliezer Yudkowsky & Razib Khan - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CarlShulman 06 February 2010 09:21:57PM 4 points [-]

Razib knows his stuff. These are noise studies thrown up by publication and attention biases. Take a look at this article by Plomin.

Comment author: timtyler 06 February 2010 09:42:10PM 0 points [-]

Note that that article is about SNPs. Sometimes tiny changes have small effects.

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Comment author: timtyler 07 February 2010 12:04:44AM 0 points [-]

Variation in a trait often means that it is not uniformly strongly selectively favoured.