Sorry but these types of studies strongly smack of eugenics. This reminds of Stephen Jay Gould's book "The mismeasure of a man".
If the SNPs are inherited (and possibly racially so) and a lower educational attainment should be associated with a lack of native intelligence, can we then conclude from this study that certain groups have a lower IQ and therefore are genetically pre-disposed to have less educational attainment? Can we test for these people in the general population and prevent them from breeding?
Are these SNPs associated with criminal propensities or mental issues and therefore correlate with a lack of educational attainment? We could then identify them and drill holes in their heads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy
Science is littered with shoddy peer accepted studies correlating IQ with genetics. This seems to be the 21st century version.
If the SNPs are inherited (and possibly racially so) and a lower educational attainment should be associated with a lack of native intelligence, can we then conclude from this study that certain groups have a lower IQ and therefore are genetically pre-disposed to have less educational attainment? Can we test for these people in the general population and prevent them from breeding?
Are these SNPs associated with criminal propensities or mental issues and therefore correlate with a lack of educational attainment? We could then identify them and drill holes in their heads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy
Science is littered with shoddy peer accepted studies correlating IQ with genetics. This seems to be the 21st century version.