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Meritocracy: The Genetic Lottery with Kathryn Paige Harden

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Genetics Makes a Difference

Students on the lowest 20 % of the polygenic anjex are five times less likely to graduate from colege than students in the top 20%. So it's a really crude number, aggregating across a lot of genetic mechanisms. But that cledgy number is as predictive as many of our social science eris. i would say the position that i am trying to take is that genetics makes a difference for who we are and not just our physical selves or our rist for disease.

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