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Hey there, geniuses! Today's BV post is about the age-old question of nature vs. nurture, and some new research that sheds some light on the question:https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-12/nurture-counts-as-much-as-nature-in-success …
It's very hard to know what Americans think about nature vs. nurture, but I heavily suspect that many or most casually believe that nature is all-important.pic.twitter.com/OLeTrbQDgI
But several pieces of recent research (and probably lots of old research that I don't know about) points to the importance of nurture. For example, cash incentives tend to make Americans (but not Chinese people) do better on math tests. Effort matters!pic.twitter.com/SfHWatYTKl
Education also matters a lot!! A new paper, surveying a bunch of studies, finds that education raises IQ by a very hefty amount.pic.twitter.com/9SgjTn8mxa
Role models and mentors - what I would call "perspective" - also matter a lot.pic.twitter.com/m9jI7r3wha
Even controlling for math ability, there are huge gaps between rich and poor, white and non-white, and men and women when it comes to patenting stuff. Neighborhoods and parents are found to have a big effect.pic.twitter.com/wOfM3WLxxC
So nurture matters - a lot. And many *kinds* of nurture matter - role models, mentors, time spent in school, and personal motivation and effort. As a society, America needs to appreciate the importance of these factors more than we do now. (end)
well you can just ask them what they thinkhttps://twitter.com/MichaelDimock/status/940614757639426055 …
shockingly, men are much more likely than women to think perceived gender differences are due to biology rather than social expectations. I wonder why? hmm, very puzzling, maybe we'll never know
Western culture is obsessed with the concept of “agency” and constantly underestimates the influence of environment
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