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Are Human Genetics An Unfair Lottery? - Paige Harden | Modern Wisdom Podcast 387
Kathryn Paige Harden is a psychologist and behavioural geneticist, Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin 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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00:00 Intro
02:47 Why is Behavioural Genetics so Uncomfortable?
09:15 Defining Social Equality
15:22 How Genes Affect Education
22:13 Proposals for Progress
33:37 Surprising Genetic Correlations
44:40 Dealing With Unfair Equality
56:23 The Ethics of Altering Genetics for Equality
1:02:33 Is Communism Genetics-Friendly?
1:06:29 Where to Find Paige
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