Alex Strudwick Young isn't a "social scientist".

Ah ok, yeah genetics science has came a long way 20 years so there it makes more sense to listen to modern stuff, but why the scare quotes? Do you have a problem with social scientists?

Edit: Looked him up and he disagrees with you. "My sense is that heritability of IQ is in the range of 30-70% with very high confidence.", you said "It's likely somewhere between 15%-50%". There is a massive difference between 30-70 and 15-50, 30-70 sounds much more reasonable and matches most studies on the subject I have seen.

https://x.com/AlexTISYoung/status/1889044121433571803

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tptacek 13 hours ago | parent [-]

No, I don't. But you've lost track of the thread, because I didn't claim he said 15-50%. There's a reason I cited him where I did: to point out how silly the 0.80 estimate the previous commenter's cite was in current context. His antecedent in this thread is "even hereditarians...".

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Jensson 13 hours ago | parent [-]

But now we have an authority figure saying 30-70, so I'll trust that over your 15-50. And yes I know why you didn't cite the 30-70, its because you disagree with it. You shouldn't say others use biased examples and then say you believe it could be as low as 15% without anything to back that up.

	▲	tptacek 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		He didn't use a "biased example"; he used a prehistoric example based on premodern methology. The only thing we've established here is that he doesn't understand his own cite. later In other words, I deliberately cited someone on his side of the debate. How much do I love that this person got promoted from woke social scientist to "authority figure" in the space of one Google query, though? Amazing.