Today it’s great to have Paige Harden on the podcast. Dr. Harden is a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where is the director of the Developmental Behavior Genetics lab and co-director of the Texas Twin Project. Her new book is called The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality.

Topics

• Heritability does not imply determinism
• What is the value of the heritability coefficient?
• Nature and nurture are always intertwined
• Genes, giftedness, and responsibility
• Separating individual differences from hierarchy
• Genetics as a tool for social policy
• Have we successfully improved general intelligence?
• Prioritizing self-actualization in education
• Group differences data, racism, inequality
• Anti-eugenics and the great synthesis
• Polygenic scores: evaluations, correlations, and applications