I am not a DNA researcher, but I always get suspicious when claims to DNA level predictors to mostly-social phenomena are made. This just came into my feed, and I am anxiously ambivalent.

First things first, it is 10% of the variation that can be predicted by this study. Ugh, the title should indicate this before promising the eugenists something bigger.

But what really baffled me was the quote from the researcher: “We are still far away from predicting a child’s academic aptitude with one hundred percent accuracy.” Alright dude. That is what we wanted to hear at these lovely times. Then we can start to nip the underachievers from the bad.

http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/uk-scientists-predict-a-students-academic-achievement-solely-on-their-dna