Naukowcy z Uniwersytety Teksaskiego przeprowadzili badania z których wynika, iż zdeterminowane genetycznie cechy odgrywają bardzo istotną rolę w osiąganiu sukcesu na drodze kariery naukowej.
Po przeprowadzeniu tzw. "twin studies" ( badania bliźniaków) okazało się się, iż genetycznie zdeterminowane różnice między ludźmi przesądzają ponad połowę różnic jeżeli chodzi o ich cechy charakteru. Pozostała reszta wynika z różnic determinowanych środowiskiem.
"Until now, parenting and schooling have been suggested by research as likely explanations for character, but our study suggests otherwise," Tłumaczy prof. Elliot Tucker - Drob, co w wolnym przekładzie oznacza: "do tej pory wychowanie przez rodziców i szkoła były tymi czynnikami, które miały wpływać na kształt naszego charakteru. Ale nasze badania wskazują , iż jest inaczej".
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"Twin studies, such as the Texas Twin Project at the UT Austin Population Research Center and Department of Psychology, compare similarities of identical and fraternal twins to estimate genetic influences on personality, interests, school grades and behavior problems. By comparing siblings, researchers learned that outside of what could be genetically explained, variance in a child's character could be attributed to unshared environmental effects, ruling out experiences shared by siblings such as parenting and attending the same school.
"As with intelligence and personality, genetics form a sizable part of the basis for character," said Tucker-Drob, co-director of the Texas Twin Project. He and his colleagues examined seven educationally relevant character measures that represented work ethic, enjoyment or desire to learn, attitudes toward education, and self-appraised abilities. The researchers also assessed how character measures were associated with the "big five" personality traits -- openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism -- which have been used in past research to predict academic achievement. In the study, genetics accounted for 69 percent of a person's general character, with 31 percent of variance accounted for by environmental influences. Furthermore, each character measure was heavily correlated with openness and conscientiousness, which were 48 and 57 percent heritable respectively."


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