{"id":165219,"date":"2023-06-06T08:28:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T13:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/schooling-substantially-improves-intelligence-but-neither-lessens-nor-widens-the-impacts-of-socioeconomics-and-genetics"},"modified":"2023-06-06T08:28:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T13:28:21","slug":"schooling-substantially-improves-intelligence-but-neither-lessens-nor-widens-the-impacts-of-socioeconomics-and-genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/schooling-substantially-improves-intelligence-but-neither-lessens-nor-widens-the-impacts-of-socioeconomics-and-genetics","title":{"rendered":"Schooling substantially improves intelligence, but neither lessens nor widens the impacts of socioeconomics and genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/schooling-substantially-improves-intelligence-but-neither-lessens-nor-widens-the-impacts-of-socioeconomics-and-genetics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Schooling, socioeconomic status (SES), and genetics all impact intelligence. However, it is unclear to what extent their contributions are unique and if they interact. Here we used a multi-trait polygenic score for cognition (cogPGS) with a quasi-experimental regression discontinuity design to isolate how months of schooling relate to intelligence in 6,567 children (aged 9\u201311). We found large, independent effects of schooling (\u03b2 ~ 0.15), cogPGS (\u03b2 ~ 0.10), and SES (\u03b2 ~ 0.20) on working memory, crystallized (cIQ), and fluid intelligence (fIQ). Notably, two years of schooling had a larger effect on intelligence than the lifetime consequences, since birth, of SES or cogPGS-based inequalities. However, schooling showed no interaction with cogPGS or SES for the three intelligence domains tested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schooling, socioeconomic status (SES), and genetics all impact intelligence. However, it is unclear to what extent their contributions are unique and if they interact. Here we used a multi-trait polygenic score for cognition (cogPGS) with a quasi-experimental regression discontinuity design to isolate how months of schooling relate to intelligence in 6,567 children (aged 9\u201311). We [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}