r/science • u/mvea 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.