r/science Professor | Medicine 20d ago

Neuroscience 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.

https://www.psypost.org/twin-study-suggests-rationality-and-intelligence-share-the-same-genetic-roots/
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u/LongbottomLeafblower 20d ago

The only way, if there was one, would be to practice eugenics on a case by case basis by finding a way to identify when a gene has been produced in a baby that leads to these supposed wrong behaviors,( if that's how it works in this theory.) The most perfect family seems to very often produce the most horrible people from time to time, but you can't say it's genetics because it's too random. Like autism or something is a mental handicap, maybe one day we'll be able to identify genetic handicaps as well, like a root cause. Imperfections essentially that arise during the forming of the new person could be traced back to a misaligned DNA strand or something.

But I'm just throwing ideas around I really don't think I understand it well enough to really give a good answer.

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u/Foolishium 20d ago

Do "Autism" really need to be solved? Cured? Eradicated?

Make them to have high function and gain independence? Sure.

Make them into neurotypical? That sound like mind control.

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u/dtalb18981 20d ago

Or just cure the disease at the core.

Acting like autism is different than schizophrenia because some of the people with it can achieve basic things is wild.

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u/LongbottomLeafblower 20d ago

Would you want to be autistic if someone offered you the choice?

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u/dtalb18981 20d ago edited 20d ago

No.

I would not give myself a disability.

I literally said we should cure it.