@richpuchalsky My credit score says I'm above average for my area. Just saying. 720 and killing it, literally I cant afford to eat something must die.

@richpuchalsky And a last name.

@richpuchalsky my odds of getting a phd are 100%. My friend Matt’s odds are 0%. Why am I paying $50 again? This sounds more like an idiot tax.

@richpuchalsky are you implying social opportunity is heritable? Next you'll tell me WEALTH is heritable, and using a definition of a word from one field – say, genetics – in another (oh idk socioeconomics) is extreme dunning-krugerism

@richpuchalsky One can argue that two methods of social selection are worse than only one. But it is true that the social effect of DNA testing is, at least in the novelty of their selectivist nature, fairly exaggerated.

For the couple of people who didn't get it: this is not some kind of approval of eugenics or suggestion that the $50 DNA test can actually predict anything. It's saying that zip codes (in the US) are a good indicator of your parents' wealth and social class, the primary predictor of these kinds of outcomes.

@richpuchalsky I would bet on the zip code! Put them to the test!

@richpuchalsky Dangerous attempt by MIT to imply genetic determinism. I guess they're looking for a new audience for financial reasons, and know where the bread is buttered.

#science #biology

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Such a test is also a eugenicist's wet dream. Blech.

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Pretty high odds.

@richpuchalsky Propensity is a relative term in this suggestion.

@richpuchalsky i feel like skintone would be an even easier approximation

@richpuchalsky Before zip codes were invented in 1963, a paper bag was used.

@richpuchalsky also can we please ban #Eugenics worldwide?

Thanks...

@richpuchalsky or the size of a bank account

@richpuchalsky I haven't seen a slick burn like this since BP torched the Gulf

@richpuchalsky letting aside the sick burn.l, they haven't seen #Gattaca? That would never end well.

@richpuchalsky @shansterable Fuck.

@richpuchalsky farcical eugenics. No different from white intellectual supremacy lol. I thought we got passed this.

@richpuchalsky "selective preschool" really gives it away. what could they possibly be selecting based upon that isnt just discrimination, have the toddler take the SAT?

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