Behavioral genetics is destroying what we’ve been told about parenting, school “quality,” and personality. Robert Plomin explains why “parents don’t matter (in the way you think)” and why school quality can explain as little as 1% of SAT/GCSE variation after correcting for socioeconomic status.

Robert Plomin, leading behavioural geneticist at King’s College London with 50 years in psychology/genetics research (from the pre-DNA era to today’s polygenic scores)

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Expect to learn:

–Why the “shared family environment” (nurture) often explains surprisingly little—so siblings can be wildly different.

–The school shocker: why “great schools” may explain ~4% of GCSE variance, and ~1% a ...