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Often wrong, sometimes useful: Including polygenic scores in social science research.

Jason M Fletcher
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2023)
This commentary seeks to briefly outline a clear-eyed middle ground between Burt's claims that the inclusion of polygenic scores (PGSs) is essentially useless for social science and proponents' vast overstatements and over-interpretations of these scores. Current practice of including PGSs in social science is often wrong but sometimes useful.
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