Re: poly: The Nurture Assumption

At 12:48 PM 12/14/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Does the book make a prediction for the case of a child being home schooled,
>so the parents were the peers, at least in the sense of being the humans the
>child was around the most?

The book does say parents have a lot more influence in
exceptional families where kids don't have much interaction
with other kids outside their home. Positive and negative
examples of this are given.

Robin Hanson
hanson@econ.berkeley.edu http://hanson.berkeley.edu/
RWJF Health Policy Scholar FAX: 510-643-8614
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Received on Mon Dec 14 21:05:02 1998