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227. Richard Nisbett on Thinking & Reason

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Is It a Genetics Problem?

The only group of people in the world whose life expectancy has gotten shorter, a i in the last o 50 years, is white americans. Am kind of addressed that with terkeimer's example. I think you'de kind of a rebutted that by saying to what extent i c matters. Ind that genetics make a difference or not. Itt makes no difference if you're all the way up here in this enriched environment, right? Exactly. So that's one answer a to that. But a murray. Ah, to his great credit, published a book a while back called coming apart. He looks at the upper a 20 % of the socio economic scale in this

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