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#387 - Paige Harden - Are Human Genetics An Unfair Lottery?

Oct 21, 2021

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The Perception of Subversiveness of Behavior Genetics

01:40

Are We Going to Get Rid of Amispirarchies?

03:42

You Can't Speak of Luck to a Self Made Man

04:49

Introduction

2min

My Protein - The Biggest Game Changer

4min

Do You Think You've Had a Spicy Few Years of Cobtudy?

2min

The Perception of Subversiveness of Behavior Genetics

2min

You Can't Speak of Luck to a Self Made Man

5min

Social Inequalities in the United States

2min

What Should Be Equalized?

4min

Is There a Link Between Genetics and Dna?

2min

Genetic Variance and Academic Success

5min

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What Are You Proposing About Parenting Genetics Research?

4min

11.

How Much Luck Shapes Our Personality?

3min

12.

Is There Away From Genetics?

3min

13.

Is the Concentration of Wealth Warping?

2min

14.

Is Teenage Pregnancy Really Bad for Kids?

2min

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Girls Who Hit Puberty Early Are Less Likely to Do Maths

3min

16.

Is Homelessness a Problem?

4min

17.

Is There a Difference Between Value and Valuable?

2min

18.

Is It the Result of Social Coices? Srihtlike, I'm Not Really Trying to Push Again.

4min

19.

Are We Going to Get Rid of Amispirarchies?

4min

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Is Inequality a Good Thing?

2min

21.

Is Your Self Worth Linked to the Work You Do?

3min

22.

I'll Never Remember This Meam

3min

23.

We Don't Take Adolescence Ter in Our Cultures

2min

24.

Are You Tempted by Communism?

4min

25.

The Larka Genetic Lottery

2min

Kathryn Paige Harden is a psychologist and behavioural geneticist, Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas and an author.

The goal of social equality is to give everyone a fair opportunity to achieve in life. But even if advantages and disadvantages in the environment are equalised, all of us are starting at different positions genetically because we get far more than just environment from our parents. Paige is trying to work out how DNA can be integrated into social equality.

Expect to learn why people are so uncomfortable talking about behavioural genetics, why your failures might be less of your fault than you think, why hitting puberty early makes girls bad at maths, whether genetic markers for working hard should be accounted for when evening out the playing field and much more...

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