"You said that the genes you looked at
had already been linked to educational
attainment, which is, of course, linked
to IQ and socioeconomic status. Do we
really need scientific research to tell us
that smart, wealthy people get more
schooling and therefore achieve more as
adults? I think one important contribution
of our work is to document that the
genetics originally discovered in studies
of educational attainment are not about
education specifically. Instead, they relate
to a range of personal characteristics—
including IQ but also noncognitive skills,
like self-control and being able to get along
well with others. These traits enabled kids
with high polygenic scores to succeed not
just in school but well beyond. In fact,
differences in education explained only
about half the effect on long-term
life success we found. Also, even though
kids born into better-off families did
tend to have slightly higher polygenic
scores, higher scores predicted success
no matter what kind of conditions a child
grew up in." [1]
1. HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2017, p. 34
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