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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad
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MORE THAN NATURE AND NURTURE? In a new Nature Human Behavior paper, we probe the origins of indirect genetic effects on educational achievement in Norway. We found they are more due to dynastic processes than to nurture processes. Here's a thread, with slight emphasis on the sociology of it. [1/9]

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First, what are indirect genetic effects? They are associations between parents' genes and children's outcomes, net of kids' own genes. Such effects have been denoted "genetic nurture", with a reference to how parents' genes affect children's environments (nurture). [2/9]

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EBewanbirney.bsky.social

Very interesting -can you provide a link to the paper?

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