Genes, Brains, and Human Potential The Science and Ideology of Intelligence
28 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL neuro- imaging technology points to a future where knowing how indi- vidual children’s brains function ...
PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL 29 informed by neuroscience.” As an example, he reports the design of a web app known as “Zondle Team Pla ...
30 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL Governments are, of course, interested in genes, brains, and potential for more utilitarian reasons: t ...
PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL 31 A simple illustration is the interpretations of brain- volume diff erences between males and females a ...
32 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL Prize for Neuroscience “for demonstrating that brain researchers, by using complicated instruments and ...
PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL 33 future.” It further declares that “the theoretical motivations underpin- ning educational neuroscience ...
34 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL A MORE POSITIVE FUTURE Th e purpose of this book is not merely to urge caution about question- able da ...
A PSYCHOLOGICAL WITNESS I ndividual diff erences in human intelligence may be obvious to most people; but behavioral ge ne ticis ...
36 PRETEND GENES Burt’s ideas were shared with a number of psychologists in Amer i ca and elsewhere in Eu rope. Th ey have run l ...
PRETEND GENES 37 ences are not based on real genes (or environments), but on imaginary models of them. No one can actually “see” ...
38 PRETEND GENES blended in the meeting of eggs and sperm. Th at meant that most varia- tion would be continuous in nature, like ...
PRETEND GENES 39 Mendel went on to do other experiments of breeding and counting in F2 generations using crosses and backcrosses ...
40 PRETEND GENES too. So the distinction was made between qualitative traits, for which individuals can be discretely categorize ...
PRETEND GENES 41 other (as if they were random combinations of Mendelian genes) and just add together. Th en we can take it that ...
42 PRETEND GENES At any rate, the 1918 paper became hugely infl uential and soon was ap- plied by psychologists or behavioral ge ...
PRETEND GENES 43 to be fully expressed. Th e average correlation between such pairs of twins could be a direct estimate of herit ...
44 PRETEND GENES mea sures are from samples of a population, rather than from every indi- vidual, many things have to be assumed ...
PRETEND GENES 45 Th e trait value is then thought to be an expression of the corresponding ge ne tic charge, more or less attenu ...
trying them out in advance. Th en those items that around 50 percent of testees get right are kept in the test, along with smal ...
Additive Gene Charges Th e second assumption is bound up with the fi rst. Remember the subtitle of Fisher’s paper: “On the Suppo ...
«
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
»
Free download pdf