216. Kathryn Paige Harden — The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Problem Social Scientists Have Is You Got a Box to Tick?
Social scientists have to have a box to tick. Which one? Are you married or divorced? Are youa first born, later born? Are you, how much do you make? Zero, 50, 51 to 100. Got o tick a box right, so that we can have some kind of correlation and run these progression analysis and all that stuff. Otherwise, what are you even talking about? But that's delimiting, is your point there? A, yes. One of my favourite studies that i've ever read is on the unpredictability of human life outcomes. And it's the study where they measured essentially everything they can think to measure on these children from birth until age 12.
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