{"id":38429,"date":"2011-08-21T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T15:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/looking-for-a-few-good-145-i-q-individuals-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2011-08-21T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T15:45:04","slug":"looking-for-a-few-good-145-i-q-individuals-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/looking-for-a-few-good-145-i-q-individuals-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a few good 145+ I.Q. individuals | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4ffbf_IQ.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13563\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4ffbf_IQ.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"552\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Above is the distribution of <strong>self-reported<\/strong> I.Q.s of the readers of this weblog according to the 2011 survey. I point this out because my friend Steve Hsu will be giving a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/infoproc.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/google-genetics-and-intelligence.html\">talk at Google later today<\/a>. Here are the details:<\/p><blockquote><p>I&rsquo;ll be giving a talk at Google tomorrow (Thursday August 18) at 5 pm. The slides are <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/duende.uoregon.edu\/~hsu\/talks\/ggoogle.pdf\">here<\/a>. The video will probably be available on Google&rsquo;s TechTalk <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GoogleTechTalks\">channel<\/a> on YouTube.<\/p><p>The Cognitive Genomics Lab at BGI is using this talk to kick off the drive for US participants in our intelligence GWAS. More information at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cog-genomics.org\/\">http:\/\/www.cog-genomics.org<\/a>, including automatic qualifying standards for the study, which are set just above +3 SD. <strong>Participants will receive free genotyping and help with interpreting the results.<\/strong> (The functional part of the site should be live after August 18.)<\/p><p><em>Title: <strong>Genetics and Intelligence<\/strong><\/em> <em><\/em><\/p><p>Abstract: How do genes affect cognitive ability? I begin with a brief review of psychometric measurements of intelligence, introducing the idea of a &ldquo;general factor&rdquo; or IQ score. The main results concern the stability, validity (predictive power), and heritability of adult IQ. Next, I discuss ...<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4ffbf_mtywfYcFmZk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><\/blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4ffbf_cnhXhsA_Sdw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above is the distribution of self-reported I.Q.s of the readers of this weblog according to the 2011 survey. I point this out because my friend Steve Hsu will be giving a talk at Google later today. Here are the details:I&rsquo;ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/looking-for-a-few-good-145-i-q-individuals-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}