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Comment by davidbessis

For full clarity: I didn't flag your comment (at least, not intentionally, as I never even thought about doing that)

Now the substance:

"The alleged “suppressed control group” does not turn the result into “no heritability”."

=> Of course not, did anyone claim there was no heritability? But

1/ It's not "alleged", it's printed black on white in the paper.

2/ There is no excuse for suppressing control group data (it's like suppressing the placebo arm of a drug study).

3/ It does turn the result into "junk", and it does establish a definite case of scientific malpractice among people arguing that IQ heritability is 0.70.

As for later analyses, they weren't the topic of my post, but that doesn't mean they're casher.

parent davidbessis 11 months ago

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