TheOtherDave comments on Awww, a Zebra - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 19 May 2014 10:52:39PM 4 points [-]

Somewhat tangentially... couldn't you do better by identifying IQ-inhibiting and IQ-enhancing environmental factors and weighting IQ scores based on those factors? If Sam's IQ is 5% lower than Pat's but Sam has lived in an environment 5x worse for developing IQ, if I'm interested in genetics it seems I'd do better with Sam.

Comment author: gwern 19 May 2014 11:24:09PM *  4 points [-]

You'd need to know the elasticity of intelligence and environments (5x on what scale? And does -5% really indicate outperformance on the genetics side?), which I'm not actually sure we know, and much of the 'environment' contribution is nonshared - immeasurable, random, we don't know what it is. But hypothetically, you could do slightly better by trying to measure environment & control for it, yeah.