Twin study suggests rationality and intelligence share the same genetic roots - the study suggests that being irrational, or making illogical choices, might simply be another way of measuring lower intelligence.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/twin-study-suggests-rationality-and-intelligence-share-the-same-genetic-roots/

[u/manimal28]

particularly when the study is inflammatory

Its inflammatory that irrationality is a trait shared with intelligence?

[u/FlallenGaming → u/manimal28]

I think the reason people find this topic sensitive is because of the historical manner in which ideas like this have been used to justify things like slavery and eugenics. 

[u/manimal28 → u/FlallenGaming]

Saying people are unintelligent because of their skin color seems very different to saying that people who are irrational are unintelligent. If people were to attempt to define the concept of intelligence they would probably even use words like rational or logical. It just seems like the concepts are linked by default where a study claiming to verify this should in no way be inflammatory.

[u/MerijnZ1 → u/manimal28]

Saying people are unintelligent because of their skin color seems very different to saying that people who are irrational are unintelligent.

Yes, but we also immediately see people in the comments saying all autism should be 'cured', so I do see where some of the connotations are coming from