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You might be interested in a fairly well-known book, The Nurture Assumption.
I will read it but I must insist I do not have any 'nurture' assumption.
"Nurture" here is a synonym for parenting (nature vs nurture as in genes vs upbringing). The nurture assumption is that parenting matters. You seem to believe that parenting matters.
I don't think that definition is adequate.
Non-naive nurture matters to an extent, my argument has nuance. This is pretty much the exact domain of statistical decision theory/prescriptive decision theory and its conclusions have strict priority. The problem is that a large class of the professional intellectual class have not caught up.
A comment on your style of argumentation in general: Can you please stop vaguely referring to theories without pinpointing what exactly it says that supports your view?