216. Kathryn Paige Harden — The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is It a Good Idea to Predict the Future?
I think some people can take that to mean it tou be really depressing about, you know, the capacity of social science to predict soething about howkeds do. But there's also something i find a little bit comforting about that humans have an incredible capacity to surprise. We there's so much variability and unpredictability in our lives. That doesn't surprise me though. Ii mean, there'sjust the chance of capturing very much of the percentage of variance is pretty low. Even if you're just studying genetics, just the twin studies, yes.
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