gwern comments on Will DNA Analysis Make Politics Less of a Mind-Killer? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 18 August 2011 12:43:18AM *  9 points [-]

I doubt that the mainstreem media would have been able to characterize her as a dullard.

Why would they not? Why shouldn't they? Phenotype dominates genotype.

Comment author: James_Miller 18 August 2011 01:03:06AM 1 point [-]

Yes, but PitMK makes it hard to judge phenotype.

Comment author: gwern 18 August 2011 04:18:26PM 4 points [-]

Hard? Harder than trying to infer IQ from genes? Genes are great, but let's not kid ourselves about how much one will be able to infer - a bad IQ test beats the most sophisticated attempt to infer from genes.

Comment author: James_Miller 18 August 2011 11:08:45PM 1 point [-]

Perhaps not because of variations of individual IQ scores across time. Lots of people retake the IQ test known as the SATs hoping to get a better score.

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