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#534 - Dr Stuart Ritchie - Why Is Behavioural Genetics Such A Hated Science?
Modern Wisdom
Why Genetic Predisposition Is So Important
Sally Kohn: There's this idea that if you've got one child, then, you know, that's interesting. If you've got another one, you can see, all right, I'm not parenting this kid particularly differently. And yet this child is totally different. She says the people who are most accurate at predicting the heritability of different traits are mothers with more than one child. But she warns against trying to normalize for genetic predisposition before people get to school. "That doesn't seem very fair"
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