You Can Test Your Fetus For IQ

[bardson]

"But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

- Albert Einstein

[halpee]

Isn’t IQ score not a completely accurate measurement on one’s intelligence?

[slasher]

I think the hubris of saying any kind of test can tell you how smart an undeveloped brain will be is astounding. Intelligence is far more then just genetics.

[neko]

Imagine dissapointing parents while being an embryo 😭😭😭😭

[todaycircle]

That would cause more needless abortions, it's the same idea as parents who abort their baby's because they find out they have down syndrome, maybe the practice of screening itself isn't immoral, but it gets there real fast.

[alexkiaii]

Short answer* you cannot*


This guy reads articles and has zero idea what the articles say and what science even proves and defines

[josiahswanson]

So we’re playing God..
And you see NOTHING wrong with this…

[Digitalhunny]

Um, Napoleon was actually a little taller then the average man at the time of his ruling. The British spread _propaganda_ that claim he was a "short king". 😂❤❤

[meirbookatz]

I agree with you 100%, difficulties bring growth, that was the whole point of the movie Split

[bardson]

@anti.prophet I assume you're talking about the polygenic risk score, which is supposed to calculate the risk of certain diasbilities. And if you do, I just want to highlight that these methods are incredibly unreliable. In trying to predict height they discovered that in most cases the embryo with the best score didn't turn out to be the tallest in the end.
There doesn't exist enough Data to verify the same for IQ and if the height score gives us any indication, then it would be that it's unreliable. This is what I call confidently spouting a load of BS.

[onlygens]

this shit invites the return of eugenics, now at a far larger scale

[silentmayan]

Wasn't Napoleon average height for the period?

[juliesayers]

My 75 year old neighbour fathered his son at age 73 to his 2nd wife, everyone said no, terminate the pregnancy due to his age, however his son is the most adorable little guy, I am glad he is alive, having an aging father didn't mean being his son will be inferior

[harissonleacock]

IQ is not necessarily what pushes our society for (Einstein dyslexic) just the ability to predict what comes next

[DonkeyHammer]

Apearently, we learned nothing from Gattica.

[RaysOfPivot]

High IQ has nothing to do with whether or not you hate yourself.

Honestly high IQ probably correlates with higher rates of self hatred

[bradleyfirby]

Ah yes because no genii were ever slightly crazy ever

[Harikusa]

"Your kid will likely have IQ below 80"
"ABORT, ABORT!" is that what we're going for here???

[aybe]

What happens when your unborn child projects out to be sub 80 IQ?

[legryzzly]

In fact, Napoléon was average size for his time.
English depict him as a little man just to belittle him.