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  • Wmill [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    What was the again joke? You can do this already with the zip code.___

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Bout to start charging $50 for a "DNA test" where I just take one look at the parents' house.

      • Wmill [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        You could probably charge more, if anything $50 sounds cheap for people interested in this.

  • KrasMazovThought [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Fun fact the $50 DNA test determines how likely your kid is to get a PhD or into a selective preschool not by measuring any genes but by measuring who has the disposable capital to spend on their own inflated self image

  • cybernetsoc [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This is just going to end up being 23andme racial diagnosis and assigning probabilistic socioeconomic strata to the results.

  • Saint [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Probably the most effective way for a DNA test to do that would be for it to match against your relatives, and then to look up out how rich they are.

  • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    they just check the zip code you pay from and cross reference how much money is there. It is wildly accurate.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      Another great metric is the volume of lead/mercury pollution in the surrounding air, water, and soil.

      Brains are highly plastic, which cuts both ways. Building up brain capacity is onerous, but repeatable across populations. Money plays a big role in how rigorous and education you receive.

      But breaking it down is comparably easy, given exposure to a well-known list of toxic particles. You can - and we routinely do - poison people into incompetence. Then we run out the old eugenics arguments to explain away the impact toxic waste exposure had on their ability to think.

  • SovietyWoomy [any]
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    4 years ago

    The real test is how much you spend on the dna test. If you can waste $10,000 on a super premium test, you have enough money to pursue a PhD if you want and buy a spot for your toddler in a selective preschool.

  • sourcesaregoodfolks [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    This is just grift, genetics doesn’t fucking work that way. We don’t understand how intelligence correlates with different genes and we probably never will.