It is time to get real when trying to predict educational performance.

Published in: eLife (2020)

A study of 3,500 children in the UK shows that data on socioeconomic background and previous educational achievements can better predict how students will perform at school than genetic data.

Keyphrases

electronic health record
big data
physical activity
high school
young adults
mental health
genome wide
cross sectional
copy number
data analysis
deep learning