How to Predict Variation in Education With Genetics

Behavior genetics stands out among other fields of psychology is the sample sizes that you guys are using there. As the samples get bigger and bigger the discoveries get more and more likely. We can estimate the totality of the effect hidden in the genome before we ever get to those samples of three or five million right? So for example for a height they've just done a GWAS of six million people making a score based on the results of that GWAS for someone that's not in that sample can predict 40 or 50% of variation in height in people that aren't in that GWAS.