📚 2 Books mentioned in "Why Is Behavioural Genetics A Hated Science? - Dr Stuart Ritchie" of Modern Wisdom

so um there was this big book in like 20. Angela Duckworth Yes Angela with book um 16 something like that that came out that was that was great It's in every single School in the country everyone loves it like the power of persistence and passion and all that sort of stuff If you look at the studies like it's literally you know it's correlated to 0.9 on a scale of minus one to one It's correlated like 0.9 conscientiousness with conscientiousness

The guest discusses Angela Duckworth's popular book, describing its widespread influence and the concept of 'grit' as persistence and passion, and critiques its empirical overlap with conscientiousness.

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So he wrote a book science writer very good really really good And I would highly recommend you go and check it out uh and so he's talking about basically the placebo effect but across multiple different sorts of domains

The host mentions having David Robson on the show to talk about his book, which is about the placebo effect and how expectations influence outcomes.

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