gwern comments on Open Thread, May 4 - May 10, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 04 May 2015 02:41:48PM 3 points [-]

Indeed. One could also look at Sariaslan's population registry studies.

Sadly, most of these sorts of studies can be written off with a single sentence: "includes no family design, therefore is useless and merely shows that heritable traits gonna inherit."