{"id":21272,"date":"2026-01-26T01:27:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21272"},"modified":"2026-01-26T01:27:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:27:48","slug":"fotd-episode-11-the-trouble-with-twin-studies-does-our-dna-make-us-who-we-are-with-jay-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21272","title":{"rendered":"FOTD Episode 11: The Trouble With Twin Studies &#8211; Does Our DNA Make Us Who We Are? (with Jay Joseph)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twins separated at birth studies are problematic for multiple reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Studies comparing twins reared together to siblings doesn&#8217;t isolate genetics because the environment is different for each sibling cohort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A whole bunch of claims about genetics rest on these bad studies or claims that these studies don&#8217;t strongly support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FOTD Episode 11: The Trouble With Twin Studies - Does Our DNA Make Us Who We Are? (with Jay Joseph)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VoysrR7Adwk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twins separated at birth studies are problematic for multiple reasons. <\/p>\n<p>Studies comparing twins reared together to siblings doesn&#8217;t isolate genetics because the environment is different for each sibling cohort. <\/p>\n<p>A whole bunch of claims about genetics rest on these bad studies or claims that these studies don&#8217;t strongly support. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VoysrR7Adwk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[793,1503,1627,1644,1330,811,48],"class_list":["post-21272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-dna","tag-evidence","tag-genetics","tag-iq","tag-psychology","tag-science","tag-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21273,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21272\/revisions\/21273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}