THE VIDEO SHELF · genetics of intelligence
Genetics and Intelligence
Steve Hsu's 2011 Google Tech Talk reviews psychometric measurement of intelligence and the heritability of adult IQ, then discusses genome-wide association studies seeking the genes behind cognitive ability.
Why HN readers recommended it
Pointed to as a well-cited hour on IQ and genetics whenever intelligence and heritability come up.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Google TechTalks
- Topic
- genetics of intelligence
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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It's only bold because there is a large number of people (often state founded, often controlling at least the lower levels of education, often with major influence on media) who strongly feel otherwise -- with no numbers to back them up, of course. --- If …
peterfirefly on Hacker News · 2015-08
In The Bright Students Left BehindSteve Hsu giving a talk @ Google on the topic, with myriad citations: [VIDEO] Four studies cited on this handy chart: [LINK] It's very well-established science that you could have easily googled, but downvoting unpopular research, pointing and shrieking "eugenics!" is a better argumentation technique, …
vox_mollis on Hacker News · 2015-11
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