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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, it’s about 80% genetic and 20% upbringing/early life.[/quote]

Assertions like this crack me up. So strange to give your totally biased opinion in such a mathematically precise way.

It is very hard to solve the nature versus nurture debate because it is so hard to control for variables. Twin studies show us that genetics clearly has an impact, but they are necessarily limited (only so many twins wind up raised in different environments).

We also simply don't observe nature as well as we think we do. We can measure obvious things like socioeconomic status, divorce, and geography. And we can measure things like presence of drugs and alcohol and diet, though even that can become challenging because you often have to deal with self-reporting issues.

But when it comes to parent personality, discipline style, etc., we only have blunt instruments. Respondent surveys, for instance. Even some of the best studies of parenting style and outcomes rely on observing parents in clinical settings, which can alter participant behavior.

Point is: no one really knows. It's definitely a combination of nature and nurture, but we really don't know which factor is dominant. And it might vary by person! [/quote]

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