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Genetic testing cannot tell teachers anything useful about an individual pupil’s educational attainment, as some are claiming. That is the conclusion of a study that looked at how well so-called polygenic scores for education predict a person鈥檚 educational achievements, based on a long-term study of thousands of people in the UK.
鈥淪ome people with a very low genetic score are very high performers at age 16. Some are even in the top 3 per cent,鈥 says Tim Morris at the University of Bristol, UK. 鈥淵ou…
