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Daily reminder that everything is heritable
From height all the way to cognition and socioeconomic determinants. The environmental factor is minute throughout most important traits.
Most recent studies find that IQ is 65-80% heritable, height is 87% and school achievement is more than 50%.
The most important thing your parents pass on to you is their genes.
Study of almost 500 families with adopted kids finds TLDR, the biological parents had by far the most influence on the child’s intelligence than anything else, only 8% could be attributed to the adoptee parental environment.
IVF testing can already screen embroyos for psychological disorders and low IQ
www.newscientist.com
There are some companies that screened for height as well. The technology is still advancing and polygenic scores are increasing in their accuracy.
Reminder that this is still an extremely costly endeavour meaning so far only the well off can afford it. This will only increase the already existing genetic rift between the lower and upper class.

From height all the way to cognition and socioeconomic determinants. The environmental factor is minute throughout most important traits.
Most recent studies find that IQ is 65-80% heritable, height is 87% and school achievement is more than 50%.
The most important thing your parents pass on to you is their genes.
Study of almost 500 families with adopted kids finds TLDR, the biological parents had by far the most influence on the child’s intelligence than anything else, only 8% could be attributed to the adoptee parental environment.
IVF testing can already screen embroyos for psychological disorders and low IQ

Exclusive: A new test can predict IVF embryos' risk of having a low IQ
A new genetic test that enables people having IVF to screen out embryos likely to have a low IQ or high disease risk could soon become available in the US
There are some companies that screened for height as well. The technology is still advancing and polygenic scores are increasing in their accuracy.
Reminder that this is still an extremely costly endeavour meaning so far only the well off can afford it. This will only increase the already existing genetic rift between the lower and upper class.
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