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\title{Natural selection in the Health and Retirement Study}
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\date{September 2023}
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I investigate natural selection on polygenic scores in the contemporary US, using the Health and Retirement Study.
Results partially support the economic theory of fertility as an explanation for natural selection: among both white and black respondents, scores which correlate negatively (positively) with education are selected for (against).
Selection coefficients are larger among low-income and unmarried parents, but not among younger parents or those with less education.
I also estimate effect sizes corrected for noise in the polygenic scores.
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I grew up in Greater Manchester, a heavily-industrialised part of the UK, where locally the main industries were at one time coal mining and cotton milling. Members of my family worked in cotton mills, and the machines were so deafening that normal communication was impossible. Consequently, mill workers invented their own forms of communication, which mixed hand signals, exaggerated lip movement, and shouting, which was locally called "meemawing". This communication form was specific to each mill, and workers moving between mills would have to relearn the mill-specific dialect to be able to meemaw with their colleagues.
This is fascinating (and depressing of course from a quality of worker life perspective). I can imagine that if it would be somehow integrated in a theatrical play it would make for a very moving / haunting experience.
> It turns out that it is possible if you do it in a special way with locales
What was special about it? From memory, the formalisation [1] proceeded exactly how you would expect. Locales are simply an Isabelle mechanism (in addition to type classes) through which hierarchies of structures are built up.
Thank you for the paper. I have a peripheral question that’s been bugging me for a while and hopefully you can answer it: why aren’t the CS papers dated? If you hadn’t mentioned latest paper I would have to do footnote archeology to guess the general timeline.
Ha, I'm not sure! I just write papers, the vagaries of how and why journals and conference proceedings are published the way that they are is beyond my ken. Looking back through some of my other papers it seems that there's a mix --- some styles do include a date, especially those provided by the ACM, whilst others don't, including IEEE TPDS which is where the paper above is published. Who knows?
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