Comment by erinys on Get genotyped for free ( If your IQ is high enough) · 2013-09-14T06:00:59.040Z · LW · GW

Although I got the email 2/23/13 saying my results were expected in May, I haven't gotten anything yet, and the site says it is still being sequenced. The results will be encoded. You will need a program to decode it. When you log into the site, at the top one of the options is Software. Under that, they list several programs that can be used. If anyone can make sense of it, I'd love to learn how. Just because I was a mathematical idiot savant at one point doesn't mean that part of my brain didn't shrivel up and die once real life happened.

On the website, it eventually updated the due date on sequencing to July. Never got an updated email.

Has anyone gotten results? Is anyone else still waiting?

I didn't become involved through that route, but I was a participant in the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth. The majority of participants are from SMPY via the samples taken earlier by Dr. Robert Plomin, another researcher. The SMPY research emphasized gender at nearly every step. I haven't heard a word about it with this. For whatever reason, the non-verbal intelligence of males exceeds that of females. That is especially true of spatial intelligence, which seems to be specifically what they (ideally) are looking for.

So, any other gals here participating in this?

If anyone is still following this, if you fell slightly short in one area they still wanted people to apply. Those figures were simply for guaranteed inclusion. I think there was a crappy understanding of Western thinking and a lot of people self-excluded who should not have. It seems BGI only got 500-600 people on its own, the other 1500 were via Plomin. When I first read of this almost 2 yrs ago, there was mention of getting 10k volunteers.

I can't speak to the GRE, but on the SAT it is slightly unusual for people to do extremely well on both the verbal and the qualitative sections. For 2008, a GRE score of 700 was the top 4%. Those top 5% scoring 800 Math would not necessarily be top 4% Verbally, those would be largely English and liberal arts types (like me, 20 yrs after graduating college, nowhere near 800 on Math despite scoring that on the SAT 25 yrs before). Hitting 700 V & 800 M thins the herd, which was already reduced because not everyone goes to grad school, not all schools require tests, some take GMAT, etc.