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In a cohort of children born in the 1990s, mothers with higher education gave birth to taller boys and girls. Although height differences were small they persisted throughout childhood. Maternal and paternal height fully explained these differences.

revisions in the D.S.M… won't alter clinical practice much… because psychiatrists tend to treat according to symptoms. So why the fuss over D.S.M.-5? Because of the unwarranted clout that its diagnoses carry with the rest of society: They are the passports to insurance coverage, the keys to special educational and behavioral services in school and the tickets to disability benefits.

"You are told: use policies that work. And you are told: RCTs - randomized controlled trials - will show you what these are. That's not so. RCTs are great, but they do not do that for you. They cannot alone support the expectation that a policy will work for you" [i.e., here, not there where the RCT was done].

very high IQ increases rel. "rsik" for PhDs etc. authors conclude low IQ can get you high performance but it is "relative unlikely" that needs to be parsed out int terms of Pop. Attributable Risk