Eli5: are some personality traits gained from birth or all they all learned from the people around you as a kid?
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Traits such as neuroticism can be tested for at six months old.
I know you’re not asking about physical features but weight is around 70% genetic.
Twin studies – where you examine twins that were adopted by different families find that the twins wind up more similar to each other in both personality and life outcomes than to the families that raised them.
The rest of the differences can be explained by the environment but environment is defined as all random experiences that happen to the child not as the parenting you do. I live in Brooklyn and find it funny how parents contort their lives by getting their kid a chess tutor at 5 years old or having a resume for their 2 year old when in reality the kid will wind up how they’re going to wind up anyways.
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