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Of course IQ is heritable to a certain degree. Why do you pretend to see blank slatism where there is none?

What you call name-dropping is justified by the need to clarify the stakes and be transparent about where the criticism is coming from. If the article is too long for you & you're …

No-one is denying heritability here. The only question is where the heritability figure lies, and how reliable are the estimates that have been put forward in the past. I don't see…

As for this snide comment that you posted behind your flagged comment: "I don't care if you find it fair. If you can't accept that genetics determines the entire organism (stress: …

For full clarity: I didn't flag your comment (at least, not intentionally, as I never even thought about doing that) Now the substance: "The alleged “suppressed control group” does…

Which exact passage of my piece triggered this bizarre interpretation? What made you jump from "someone criticizes a 1990 paper in Science for withholding critical control group da…

Great to see you're making progress! A few posts ago you were alluding to heritability in the 0.7-0.8 range, as a reason to dismiss the writings of Einstein, Newton, Descartes and …

I was alluding to the quote relevant to the current debate: "Genius is 1% talent and 99% hard work" — which you incorrectly attributed to Einstein.

Dear cutemonster, I know this reply may not suffice to convince you, but unfortunately I won't be able to argue forever. Did you ever consider the possibility that you might be the…

> Sounds like people mostly living in different bubbles? What do they know about the world? Well, they do know something about math — in particular that it requires a certain "atti…

Indeed, it does involve redefining genius as a "state", or "flow", or "trajectory". When I say it's not primarily genetic, many people wrongly assume there's an entirely explainabl…

I think you really are confused. You are mistakenly equating "non-primarily genetic" with "easily teachable". The story is much more complex than "if it's not genetic then everybod…

Great to see so many reactions to my interview, thanks! I see that many people are confused by the interview's title, and also by my take that math talent isn't primarily a matter …

I'm the author of what you've just described as clickbait. Interestingly, the 100m metaphor is extensively discussed in my book, where I explain why it should rather lead to the ex…