Your genes affect your education. Here’s why that’s controversial. | Kathryn Paige Harden
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Watch Kathryn Paige Harden's next interview ► Nature vs. nurture, explained by a geneticist
Conceiving a child is like playing the lottery. Given any two parents, there are 70 trillion possible genetic combinations that any one of their children could inherit.
This genetic diversity can make siblings really different from one another, for instance, in terms of their education, income, and lifespan.
Any attempt to study or address inequality in society must consider the impact of genetic inequality.
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About Kathryn Paige Harden:
Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden is a tenured professor in the Department of Psychology at UT, where she leads the Developmental Behavior Genetics lab and co-directs the Texas Twin Project. She is the author of The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (Princeton). Dr. Harden received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia and completed her clinical internship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
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