227. Richard Nisbett on Thinking & Reason
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Importance of the Environment
An intelligent kid modifies the environment is interesting to read to by parents, interesting to have conversations with. We now know that what happens in the home, in the early childhood ment is incredibly important to cognitive skills. If you take a kid from a lower class family, a got two kids there, let's say identical twins, one raised in the family of origin and one raised in an upper middle class environment, that's worth 12 to 18 points on adult i and that. And that's all she wrote.
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