I find these correlation articles annoying because it takes the vagaries of biology with all of it's complex feedback, self modifying and massive scale systems and then extracts a "maybe"-style conclusion.
Particularly egregious is nearly anything relating to behavior. To use an example from the popular TV series House, an inmate had an adrenal tumor that would spike his fight or flight response in an erratic and massive fashion -- Foreman argued that tumor was responsible for said inmates behavior and would testify on his behalf; House pointed out there were other, similar cases of adrenal cancers, and yet very few of them committed such heinous crimes, indicating that the individual ultimately chooses their behavior, for good or ill.
Discipline is the art of the mind asserting conscious control over the body. It's why we simply don't act on every impulse.
The thought of anyone justifying a particularly dishonest behavior as "genetics" is rotten.
And one aspect of science I seem to see get abused routinely, for religion to politics, is that of responsibility and justifications.
Please note, I am explaining why I find this style of research reporting annoying, not this particular piece.
Particularly egregious is nearly anything relating to behavior. To use an example from the popular TV series House, an inmate had an adrenal tumor that would spike his fight or flight response in an erratic and massive fashion -- Foreman argued that tumor was responsible for said inmates behavior and would testify on his behalf; House pointed out there were other, similar cases of adrenal cancers, and yet very few of them committed such heinous crimes, indicating that the individual ultimately chooses their behavior, for good or ill.
Discipline is the art of the mind asserting conscious control over the body. It's why we simply don't act on every impulse.
The thought of anyone justifying a particularly dishonest behavior as "genetics" is rotten.
And one aspect of science I seem to see get abused routinely, for religion to politics, is that of responsibility and justifications.
Please note, I am explaining why I find this style of research reporting annoying, not this particular piece.
