re: #25 ralphieboy

It has nothing to do with any sound science, but these people do not understand the basic principles of science and statistics.

Once again, where is it definitively proven that relative scores on written tests are a 1:1 indicator of relative intelligence?

The article being quoted by Hot Air does not even make that claim. It draws conclusions solely about genetics and heritability of traits, not how these traits are expressed or what comprises “intelligence”. But the AEI comment simplifies things for readers, saying

The study’s methods do not lend themselves to easy explanation unless you’re at home with SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) and inverse variance weighted models used to capture “the variance in the trait that is due to linkage disequilibrium between genotyped SNPs and unknown causal variants.” But the bottom line of the article is reasonably simple

IOW: Readers are stupid and gullible. Let me tell them what I want the article to mean and they will believe it because I am a bald white guy.