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The Association of Polygenic Risk for Psychiatric Disease With Math and Language Scores

Figure 4 is a complicated set of candlestick graphs that show various psychiatric disorders, including ADHD, ASD and others. Some are positive, some are negative; it claims schizophrenia risk decreases math but increases language ability. It also claims autism genes increase linguistic ability but have no effect on math. What am I missing? Scott says there were three times as many sessions on global warming as on obsessive compulsive disorder at the American Psychiatric Association meeting. The same goes for economic growth: 23 out of 69 panel papers focused on gender issues while 65 looked at racial issues.

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