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#534 - Dr Stuart Ritchie - Why Is Behavioural Genetics Such A Hated Science?
Modern Wisdom
Your Expectations Are More Powerful Than Your Genes
The expectation that you have about your outcomes can very heavily influence the outcomes. David Robson is a book science writer who talks about basically the placebo effect, but across multiple different sorts of domains. He's talking about how expectations are more powerful than your genes. Is there maybe an argument to be made that the more sexy that you make it, the more outlandish that you making it sounding, it does end up becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy?
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