Genetics certainly plays a role in who you are as an individual. What that means in the society you live in is completely dependent on the way people choose to structure that society.
In other words, your individual genetics don't *cause* your social outcomes. The society you live in and how it's structured does.
We can take a Polygenic Risk Score that predicts being a teacher even with high accuracy and restructure society such that those with the highest scores never become teachers.
Acknowledge genes, but let's not get carried away with claims about genetic causality.
Acknowledge genes, but let's not get carried away with claims about genetic causality.
We should also note these techniques always make assumptions about the environment. One of which is that my previous example wouldn't hold because the environment changed.
Yet so often we assume the current environment leading to current scores are somehow neutral or natural.
Yet so often we assume the current environment leading to current scores are somehow neutral or natural.
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