Thursday, April 16, 2020

Nature Defeats Nurture

Lucianne.com links to a Scientific American article which takes up the nature vs. nurture conflict and announces, unambiguously, the following as its conclusion.
DNA isn’t all that matters, but it matters more than everything else put together in terms of the stable psychological traits that make us who we are.

The nature-nurture war is over. Nature wins, hands down.
Analysis: True. This finding has policy implications progressives hate, a lot.