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drethelin comments on You are the average of the five people you spend most time with. - Less Wrong Discussion

-2 Post author: diegocaleiro 04 September 2013 11:02PM

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Comment author: drethelin 05 September 2013 03:46:31AM 1 point [-]

both adopted and natural children are far more likely to be like their peer group than their family, if I remember what I read in "no two alike"

Comment author: diegocaleiro 05 September 2013 03:57:33AM *  -2 points [-]

For most psychological characteristics we are 50% genes, 10% environmental big stuff (family, conditions) and the remainder is distributed between Question Mark (we just don't know), peers and how you take what happens (something like autonomous, or self creating).