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