Saturday, June 04, 2005
So That's Why...
...I am the way I am.
Intelligence, genetic disease linked
I got all excited when I saw that headline. I figured I was going to have a field day debunking some fool that was trying to say really intelligent people were ill. A better study would be into looking at how so many really intelligent people can be so wrong, but that is another matter altogether.
Anyway, all I got is study linking a certain sect of Judiaism in eastern Europe, with a set of genetic disorders and higher than average intelligence, to a form of selective breeding that was maintained in eastern Europe historically. So far, I'm thinking it is more correlation being confused with causation.
