<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Putting a Number on Disadvantage
The College Board will add a measure of students' life circumstances alongside test scores. Plus: faulty foundations of the research linking genes and depression, and more
What We’re Following
Are people with, say, a variant of the gene SLC6A4 at greater risk for depression? Not really. That’s according to a comprehensive new study, which interrogated 18 genes that most frequently appeared in such research on depression. For decades, researchers built study after study on a blockbuster 1996 finding on SLC6A4 and depression, and now an entire field of work is in question. “This should be a real cautionary tale,” “How on Earth could we have spent
