Geneticists And Economists Clash Over "Genoeconomics" Paper

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @05:10AM from the go-go-godwin dept.

scibri writes "One side is accused of supporting ethnic cleansing; the other of being intellectually naive. Geneticists and economists are struggling to collaborate on research that explores how our genes influence and interact with economic behavior. Top economists are publishing a paper that claims a country's genetic diversity can predict the success of its economy. To critics, the economists' paper seems to suggest that a country's poverty could be the result of its citizens' genetic make-up, and the paper is attracting charges of genetic determinism, and even racism. But the economists say that they have been misunderstood, and are merely using genetics as a proxy for other factors that can drive an economy, such as history and culture."

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Re:There is obviously a link here. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-10 05:51 · Score: 0, Troll

Exactly. Black students perform poorly on standardized tests because of a conspiracy to provide only grape-flavored, mentholated pencils to the test-taking students. That way, the black students never finish the tests because they end up eating the pencils halfway though.
Why, you ask? There was a manufacturing surplus of purple velvet seats and gold rims made for Geo Metros, and they had to be sold. Only the uneducated buy those things.