Gene discovery from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment
taking all of the associations into account and making a polygenic predictor score &quot;does a lousy job predicting the outcome for any specific individual, but it can explain 11 percent of the population-wide variation in years of schooling.&quot;<p>only 11 percent. this tells us that the remainder is more likely to be attributable to environmental factors.<p>in other words, even with a view of the genes, we would need to encourage education more strenuously if we wanted to improve educational outcomes for society.