They do say that they'll link demographic information with each genetic sample, so that's something. But I'd still suspect that their initial sample will be disproportionately dominated by rich white kids, because you need both intelligence AND an unusually supportive background to do well on the SAT five years before it's intended to be taken (for all the reasons I've outlined above). I don't know how they plan to separate those factors; I'm not sure I believe that they even could. Hence my hesitation to participate: I wouldn't want to contribute to a study that was biased to conclude that intelligence turns out to be caused by genes found mostly in rich white people. If they've got plans to deal with that, I'd feel a lot better about it. Maybe I'll write to the researchers and find out.
So, when you took the SAT in 7th grade, was it just on a whim or was there some outside program that organized it? I vaguely recall that there was some agreement where Duke and two other schools split up the country for these 7th grade SAT things, and I don't know who the other two schools were or where their (rather random) territories ran.
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So, when you took the SAT in 7th grade, was it just on a whim or was there some outside program that organized it? I vaguely recall that there was some agreement where Duke and two other schools split up the country for these 7th grade SAT things, and I don't know who the other two schools were or where their (rather random) territories ran.