Twin expert helps ex-medical students defeat cheating allegations
Cal State Fullerton psychology professor Nancy Segal helped clear the names of two sisters accused of cheating on a South Carolina medical school exam.
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Left-Wing Behavioral Genetics? A Closer Look at the Genetic Evidence in "The Cult of Smart"
In his 2020 book The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice, writer/academic Fredrik deBoer attempted to reconcile his own and others’ socialist/left political perspectives with what he saw as discoveries produced by twin and adoption “kinship” studies coming from the field of human behavioral genetics, plus recent claims of associations between some genetic variants and IQ. 1 A major theme of the book was that “academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved.” This led deBoer to propose changes in the U.S. edu...
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