Why Your Life Sucks (or doesn't) - Genetic Determinism

[Applause] so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and now the starting lineup for your world champion chicago [Music] [Applause] [Applause] oh [Music] what if i told you that if you had a clone who was reared in a completely different environment than you they would still end up nearly exactly the same as who you are today [Music] that would not just be in terms of academic or career achievement but also in personality and psychopathology in fact if the same clone was reared together with you in precisely the same environment as you it would be nearly exactly similar as in the other case now with such a bold claim perhaps you'd expect some evidence well i'd have just that where does a lie in identical twins you see in identical twins they share precisely the same dna sequence dna goes far beyond solely physical features the same genes that form their brains are also what influence behavior meet bobby he grew up in a very wealthy family in long island then he went to school in upstate new york however when he went to school here something very strange occurred when he arrived and on the first day everyone's calling bobby eddie girls are coming up and giving a hug and a kiss saying oh eddie it's so good to see you so he's thinking psychology experiment looking for the cameras but then he met eddie and they quickly worked out they had the same birthday they were adopted from the same adoption agency in new york and um the publicity that came from that led to the rare circumstance of a third identical triplet because i told you that the zygote separates for reasons unknown sometimes one of those zygotes separates again so these are clones of one another they have the same dna sequence and the film this is a documentary film that won the sundance award last year called three identical strangers and it's available on streaming and i really recommend it as a dramatic illustration of the points i'm trying to make but it is just an anecdote and an illustration and just watch the first half the second half is a very bad story because did you think why were they separated and didn't know about each other's existence why was one put in a lower class home one in a middle class home one in an upper class home a nutty psychiatrist who was actually out to prove nurtures important he thought it was going to be a definitive experiment identical triplets put one in the lower classroom one in middle family won an upper-class family they already had adopted another kid from the agency so they knew what the parenting styles were like so they made them as different as possible and he was he was a freudian you know this is in the 50s just assume the environment it's all about nurture but then when the results started coming out he actually buried them so they're under lock and key at yale medical school until 2066 never been published but this film exposes and there's probably at least half a dozen if not more identical twins who have been separated as a result of this as you can see this experiment was actually created to prove that nurture was more important contrary to nature evidently the findings proved quite the contrary hence the results of the experiment were locked up until 2066. now of course there are tons of studies on identical twins with the same dna sequence and all of them yield precisely the same conclusion regardless of the environment that the individual is raised in they will be extremely similar while the same is not true for those raised in precisely the same environment but with different dna sequences regardless if the dna sequence is precisely the same or not an individual similarity to another is correlated not with their environment but rather with their genetic similarities and it doesn't matter how old you are or how long you've spent in a different environment in fact the more you age the more your genes begin to define you the closer you end up towards your genetic destination over time and separate and apart they noticed patterns we live parallel lives essentially you both have three kids yeah i mean similar ages too you guys both coach hockey yeah yeah are both my our kids both started playing and we both i never played growing up you both hold your wallet in your front pocket i don't know how much is that is like genetic or just how many people do that though so you got married the same year yeah what year oh my god you guys both had to think it illustrates the point that your brain is simply a puppet of your genes whether you like it or not if presented with precisely the same situation as your clone your brain would make precisely the same decision as your clone even in some cases where the situation is just similar enough such as naming a sun at a slightly different period of your life it still may be sufficient to generate the same result dr robert plummen the individual you saw in a prior clip is the author of the book blueprint this was the book that inspired me to make this video i'll leave a link for it in the description below in the book he explains that environment does indeed play a factor statistically however the primary reason for this is the severe outlier cases that throw off the means these are notable enough to create a long-term change in one's behavior for example a very traumatic event like having to serve in vietnam or watching someone you love die in a car crash are severe enough to have an extremely notable impact on your life however environment doesn't play that notable of a role when it comes to the average individual who experiences average situations no matter if they grow up poor or wealthy in fact the most notable environmental effects are almost always unintentional it's not good or bad parenting that could change one life's path completely rather it's the unpredictable extreme circumstances that can what's been known for a long time is it runs in families and that parents and their children increasingly resemble their each other as the kids grow up so that shows you it the parent offspring correlation when parents share genes in environment with their kids goes up to about 0.3 ish um by late adolescence so is it nature or nurture for a very long time it was assumed to be nurture and it's not an unreasonable hypothesis but if it's nurture that is the parents are giving the kids the environment they need to develop cognitively you'd have to predict that the adoptive parents ought to be just about as similar to their adopted kids and the correlations are actually zero so that suggests it's not nurture in the sense we've thought about it as systematic effects of the parents say well then is it really nature could it really be that these birth parents who don't share environment would share genes are correlated as much as parents who rear the kids and the answer is yes so it's a powerful demonstration of the importance of nature and the unimportance of nurture as we've defined it in terms of systematic effects of the family environment as you can see jeans play the most important role in determining your destination in life whether you like it or not since you cannot control your genes although you can fraud them with cosmetic surgeries of course this reality may be hard to accept for some but yes life is certainly unfair but even if wealth equality is ever possible it will only make life more unfair because then it places everything on genetic quality and of course you cannot make equal genetics people don't have different qualities of life because of their income differences they have income differences because of their genetics they inherited combined with a minor influence of the environment which causes the differences in quality of life but here's the one thing that got quite a bit of attention in terms of schools if you see what i've been talking about can you see how this makes sense schools matter but they don't make a difference so schools matter a lot they um kids have to learn basic skills of literacy and numeracy and enculturation but they don't make a difference kids going to the same school aren't any more similar as if they than if they had gone to different schools and part of that's because 60 of the differences are genetic anyway and the environmental effects are not systematic so one quick fact that's important for you guys because you look like you're at risk of child bearing age and you know how in england it's we have this crazy selective system for secondary schools parents spend hundreds of thousands of pounds to get their kid into a better school better school why mostly based on ofsted ratings of the schools people don't ask about the effect size of the ofsted rating so they cost about 10 grand each you know it's the really good ratings of schools atmosphere teacher support bullying the whole schmear but then they are the primary difference between schools in the league tables so the question is how much of the variance how many of how much of the differences between kids and their gcse scores is accounted for by offstead ratings of school quality so some kids go to schools where they're very high ratings and some go to schools where they're very low ratings so heritability counts for sixty percent offstead ratings account for four percent which is not a noticeable difference so you get these mean differences but you've got to ask about the effect size and the effect size is very small if you correct for socioeconomic status because kids aren't randomly assigned to schools it goes down to one percent that's not a difference you can even detect you know with you know your experience you need very large samples and statistics to detect it and then finally what looks like systematic effects of schools are often genetic effects in disguise so one quick example of this is that you probably know that there's a big gcse difference between kids in selective schools and non-selective schools it's a whole grade difference that's a correlation between going to a selective school and how well you do on gcses but it's hard to avoid interpreting that environmentally the selective schools have more resources you know better playing field probably maybe better teachers but it isn't they're selecting for genetically influenced traits of school achievement and ability and it's a self-fulfilling prophecy if you select the kids who do the best at school and have the greatest ability they're going to do the best at school and have the greatest ability if you correct you merely just correct gcse scores for what the schools select on earlier achievement and ability there's no difference in performance there's no added value of selective schools this is why we see rags to riches stories for instance all it takes is the right genetic combination for one individual to break the ancestor's lineage of poverty the individual's income does not change so what is it that gives them the advantage to excel outside of their ancestors it's that unique genetic combination despite being poor they could still excel on the contrary we also see some cases where an offspring of a very wealthy individual inherits a lot of money and loses it all it's not just because growing up spoiled influences you to not want to work as hard rather it's mostly because of the offspring's genetic combination such as a higher propensity to a drug addiction lower work ethic higher propensity to gambling etc and in the same manner often these offspring will continue to be successful even if they were reared spoiled because they inherit mostly good genes it goes beyond just mental genetic quality however physical genes control your life as well such as your height and how attractive your face is the individuals perceive physically attractive people as being more intelligent than physically unattractive people this perception is captured by the phrase what is beautiful is good and this doesn't necessarily have anything to do with romance neither the sex of the person making the judgment nor the sex of the person being judged has an effect on the perception that beautiful people are intelligent in addition we see studies that show that first and second graders have the perception that attractive teachers or more intelligent attractiveness is objective it is not subjective i break this down in my video right here if you'd like to watch it i'm sorry if this cold reality upsets you but it's just biology natural selection tick tock is the true embodiment someone can be successful for simply showing their face people get mad that these individuals can be famous for doing absolutely nothing no talent at all as the people liking the video are simply appreciating the genetic quality on screen but it goes far beyond tick tock did you know that fifty percent of ceos are over six feet tall even though they only make up about thirteen percent of the population within the united states perhaps take a look at our presidents how many short ones do you see here in conclusion while yes the day-to-day decisions you make indeed may not be precisely the same as your identical twin or hypothetical clone regardless in the end you cannot escape your genetic destination in life overall when all the factors are combined if you were to put everything in an equation together while there would be some discrepancies overall the general destination would still be the same now i don't want this video to demotivate you rather i want this video to motivate you because perhaps you might acknowledge that your genes may be subpar in comparison to the other people within the society that you live that's okay use that as motivation to work harder now the problem here is that work ethic is mostly genetic as well most psychological traits as described in the book blueprint are 70 or more genetic so with that said perhaps this video is sufficient enough to be a positive influence the environmental factor to inspire you to work harder and prove your genes wrong so i want you to treat this as a positive rather than a negative even though this reality may be hard to accept the way i see it is that the most difficult realities to accept are often disheartening to accept at first but in the long run they actually end up benefiting you so perhaps you see me as a villain now but one day when you end up working extremely hard to achieve what you want to achieve in life perhaps you'll come back and thank me but anyway with that said subscribe for more thought-provoking content like this leave a like if you enjoyed and comment your notions down below again the link for blueprint will be in the description below but with that said a fantastic rest of your day i think one of the biggest mistakes people generally make and i'm guilty of it too is wishful thinking you know like you want something to be true even if it isn't true and so you ignore the things that you ignore the real truth because of what you want to be true [Music] 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Length: 16min 44sec (1004 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 17 2022