was able to push this through, it was not unanimous by any stretch of the imagination and that was not something neubauer had let on. he said, this was the practice of the time. they split us up to study us. we were part of this child study. nature versus nurture. lawrence perlman was briefly involved in the original study as a young postgraduate. he is one of the few researchers who have spoken publicly about their experiences. ijoined the study in 1968. i was 24. myjob was to organise the data and there was a wealth of data. so the idea was to try to tease out what differences there might be as a result of the different families that they were raised in. thus, be able to understand the relative contribution of hereditary versus environment. part of what we did during the time i was on the study,