Genetics, big data science, and postgenomic education research

Genetics, big data science, and postgenomic education research
Ben Williamson, Code Acts in Education, 2018/07/27
Ben Williamson has put in the work and done the reserach and it shows in this excellent article on the nature and implications of the story circulating this week on the relation between some specific genetic properties and educational attainment. " Clearly the paper is a massive advance for genetics science, in education and beyond," he writes. Looking at the diagram - showing how the 75 genes are implicated specifically with the process of neurotransmission - it seems to me to be a significant advance in neuroscience as well. More...