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I would love to see hard evidence that "natural gifts and talents are facts". Environment, circumstance, and chance are more than sufficient to explain differen

• temp8964 6y ago
  "Environment, circumstance, and chance are more than sufficient to explain differences in performance". Wow.
• lupire 5y ago
  My siblings (multiple genders and genetic histories, same parents and schools) had very different levels of success in academics. How does that fit your theory?
  • pksebben 5y ago
    I don't have a theory - I was pointing out our lack of concrete insight into the processes that drive performance. Literally, we do not know how cognition works, so any concept we have regarding its management is based on a set of assumptions and approximations. Going to the same school and having the same parentage does not mean you have the same experience. Heck, you could be twins, raised identically at identical schools and with absolute equity, and you'd have differing experiences (leading to differences in perspective and subsequently differences in thinking). To be clear: I am not saying I know either way, but I also reject any notion based on the assumption that we have a strong grasp on how minds work. As such, it would behoove us to implement strategies that are not subject to strong feedback loops - that might have an amplifying effect on the initial conditions of a human life.