What's happening people? Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Paige Harden. She's

a psychologist and behavioral geneticist, professor of psychology at the University of

Texas and an author. The goal of social equality is to give everyone a fair opportunity to

achieve in life. But even if advantages and disadvantages in the environment are equalized,

all of us are starting at different positions genetically because we get far more than

just environment for my parents. Paige is trying to work out how DNA can be integrated

into social equality. Expect to learn why people are so uncomfortable talking about behavioral

genetics, why your failures might be less of your fault than you think, why hitting

puberty early makes girls bad at maths, whether genetic markers for working hard should

be accounted for when evening out the playing field and much more. This conversation is

so fraught and interesting and conflicting. We like to believe that we are the masters

of our own success, right? But genetics have played a huge part, in fact probably a bigger

part than any other influence on what you've achieved in life and telling you that that's

actually not your success. That's actually because of the genes that you've got. It doesn't

make people feel very good. And yet, the social equality implications are really, really

interesting. I thoroughly enjoyed this little dance with Paige today. Very, very cool.

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