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Re:Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Caut... by jotakami on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @09:47AM (#21648232)
The argument is not that a peer group affects all members in the same way, but that the effect of the peer group is dominant.
Re:Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Caut... by toasterlovin on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @10:01AM (#21648378)
Just responding here as well. The book actually puts forward genetics as the most important cause of behavioral differences. It then argues that the next most important cause is not parenting but what is referred to in the literature as non-shared environment (aka, everything other than parents, family, neighborhood, etc, which are all grouped under shared environment). Shared environment has zero effect.