Using the large datasets available with new gene sequencing and biobank projects, behavioral geneticists are developing tools that attempt to predict individual intelligence based on genetics. These predictive tools are meant to enable a ‘precision education’ that will transform society. These technological developments have not changed the fundamental aims of a program with a long history. Behavioral genetics is continuous with previous attempts to match personal characteristics to heredity, such as sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, and threatens racial and other forms of bias. From these older paradigms, it inherits an understanding of intelligence as informational processing shaped by mechanistic and computational metaphors as well as a view of society and education organized around competition. Because of these influences, these models misdescribe fundamental aspects of human engagement with the world and disregard other concepts of intelligence, which creates problems for the precision education that researchers hope to construct using genetic knowledge.

利用可用于新基因测序和生物库项目的大型数据集，行为遗传学家正在开发工具，试图根据遗传学预测个体智力。这些预测工具旨在实现改变社会的“精准教育”。这些技术发展并没有改变具有悠久历史的计划的基本目标。行为遗传学与先前将个人特征与遗传相匹配的尝试延续，例如社会生物学和进化心理学，并威胁到种族和其他形式的偏见。从这些旧范式中，它继承了对智能的理解，即由机械和计算隐喻塑造的信息处理，以及围绕竞争组织的社会和教育观。由于这些影响，