Dyscalculia and Dyslexia, it is in the genes

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Apparently the ability to read and write and do math has a considerable overlap at the genes level. We link to a study about it, here a quote:

Understanding the etiology (causes or origins) of complex cognitive characteristics like numeracy and literacy ability is key to assisting children with achieving their potential and gaining knowledge of population variation in cognitive abilities and the substantial genetic components shared with learning difficulties such as dyslexia and dyscalculia.

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So Dyscalculia really has little or nothing to do with IQ

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One of the ways people would go about finding out if a child has dyscalculia, is by looking at the IQ and then confirming that math skills are much lower as would be predicted by the general IQ. This discrepancy would indicate the presence of dyscalculia. Now however a study done earlier this year, also looked at children with lower or average IQ and found that number sense can be equally affected, independent from the IQ.

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