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/loidelhistoire]

This field is an ideological minefield though, isn't it?

[u/RudeHero → u/loidelhistoire]

For sure. Compare it to nuclear research.

Nuclear research is important, but depending on ideology the people in charge could use the results to provide energy, or they could use them to kill a bazillion people

I suppose that applies to a lot of research

[u/randylush → u/RudeHero]

The problem is with physics, things are pretty concrete. You can be right or wrong, and it’s fairly easy to get a consensus on how things work.

With psychology, unfortunately people will push their ideology all the way down to the science. People are very wary to admit that there is a genetic component of intelligence or even just mental health, for fear of being labeled a eugenist.

This would be like being afraid to admit that uranium-235 is fissile because of the implications.

[u/lil_kleintje → u/randylush]

This kind of approach is already delivering some insane results in tech industry environment: rationalists, zizians, yarvinists, Musk/Thiel&Co... who knows what else is brewing.