Re:Does MIT consider legacy?
by chongli on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:00PM
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Yes, and identical twins raised apart show extremely similar academic achievement, far more similar than non-identical siblings raised in the same household. This strongly indicates that academic achievement is highly explained by genes but that recombination [1] causes enough scrambling to result in large variance among non-identical siblings.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_recombination