(Presumably there exists some standard text about this that one can just link to lol.)
I don’t think so.
I’m still curious whether this actually happens.… I guess you can have the “propensity” be near its ceiling.… (I thought that didn’t make sense, but I guess you sometimes have the probability of disease for a near-ceiling propensity be some number like 20% rather than 100%?) I guess intuitively it seems a bit weird for a disease to have disjunctive causes like this, but then be able to max out at the risk at 20% with just one of the disjunctive causes? IDK. Likewise personality...
For something like divorce, you could imagine the following causes:
Most common cause is you married someone who just sucks
… but maybe you married a closeted gay person
… or maybe your partner was good but then got cancer and you decided to abandon them rather than support them through the treatment
The genetic propensities for these three things are probably pretty different: If you’ve married someone who just sucks, then a counterfactually higher genetic propensity to marry people who suck might counterfactually lead to having married someone who sucks more, but a counterfactually higher genetic propensity to marry a closeted gay person probably wouldn’t lead to counterfactually having married someone who sucks more, nor have much counterfactual effect on them being gay (because it’s probably a nonlinear thing), so only the genetic propensity to marry someone who sucks matters.
In fact, probably the genetic propensity to marry someone who sucks is inversely related to the genetic propensity to divorce someone who encounters hardship, so the final cause of divorce is probably even more distinct from the first one.
(Presumably there exists some standard text about this that one can just link to lol.)
I don’t think so.
How confident are you / why do you think this? (It seems fairly plausible given what I’ve heard about the field of genomics, but still curious.) E.g. “I have a genomics PhD” or “I talk to geneticists and they don’t really know about this stuff” or “I follow some twitter stuff and haven’t heard anyone talk about this”.
In fact, probably the genetic propensity to marry someone who sucks is inversely related to the genetic propensity to divorce someone who encounters hardship, so the final cause of divorce is probably even more distinct from the first one.
Ok I’m too tired to follow this so I’ll tap out of the thread for now.
I don’t think so.
For something like divorce, you could imagine the following causes:
Most common cause is you married someone who just sucks
… but maybe you married a closeted gay person
… or maybe your partner was good but then got cancer and you decided to abandon them rather than support them through the treatment
The genetic propensities for these three things are probably pretty different: If you’ve married someone who just sucks, then a counterfactually higher genetic propensity to marry people who suck might counterfactually lead to having married someone who sucks more, but a counterfactually higher genetic propensity to marry a closeted gay person probably wouldn’t lead to counterfactually having married someone who sucks more, nor have much counterfactual effect on them being gay (because it’s probably a nonlinear thing), so only the genetic propensity to marry someone who sucks matters.
In fact, probably the genetic propensity to marry someone who sucks is inversely related to the genetic propensity to divorce someone who encounters hardship, so the final cause of divorce is probably even more distinct from the first one.
How confident are you / why do you think this? (It seems fairly plausible given what I’ve heard about the field of genomics, but still curious.) E.g. “I have a genomics PhD” or “I talk to geneticists and they don’t really know about this stuff” or “I follow some twitter stuff and haven’t heard anyone talk about this”.
Ok I’m too tired to follow this so I’ll tap out of the thread for now.
Thanks again!
I talk to geneticists (mostly on Twitter, or rather now BlueSky) and they don’t really know about this stuff.