 Researchers have just found a gene that links East Asians to educational attainment and is this the most stereotypical thing in the world? Let's talk about it. Yeah, you know, we're talking about new genes, but apparently we're born with a nerve gene. A study conducted by Korean medical researchers in collaboration with the Taiwanese team involved a genome-wide association study Andrew with samples from 176,400 individuals and they discovered that they were tracking extra high on this chromosome that has been labeled edu years That's a funny name for the chromosome, right? So basically Andrew Potentially being nerdy and good at school is a little bit genetic Hold up. Hold up. We're gonna talk about this because does that mean? Nature versus nurture. What does it mean to have this gene show up a little bit more or a little bit less? Maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe it's more on the place that you're born into anyways guys, please We're gonna get into it. It's gonna get spicy hit that like button right now Watch the video through leave your comment down below and check out small ass sauce Hey, man from such quite a Sicily Andrew nature versus nurture, or do you mean nerd chur? No chur. I will say this By the way, Andrew the study also followed up by saying while the study unveiled a genetic link the researchers Caution against using these variants to predict an individual's educational achievement Emphasizing the influence of social and environmental factors Andrew They also did a quantitative estimate saying that this extra if you like rank really high on the edu years chromosome It estimating it only gives you a 10% of variance in total education attainment However, it's 10% a lot if you get slotted into different lanes early in life Well, we're gonna talk about it man because I guess I got some thoughts on this because I think that Assuming that this is true. I mean these are researchers. They did find this gene I'm not in the lab with them. So I'm not gonna tell them that it's not true But I think the debatable part is how much of an impact that has on your life Because your life is made up of a ton of different factors It's not just the brain that you're born with it's literally the family. You're born into the environment Do they care about education all these other things? Do you care about education? Maybe you find out you're into other things and then you don't go into Because education attainment what they're talking about is literally attaining like a degree But you can be very smart and not attain it or it could be street smart. Yeah, it could be merchant smart I mean, there's different levels and different types of intelligence. Well, well, let's just get into some stats Andrew How true is this because 6% of the Asian American population is Asian But they make up 41% of the students this score over 1400 on the SAT. So obviously like it's not like anybody was really like I Mean, I guess it's like a stereotypical Doesn't is it does it not sound stereotypical like did you know there's also studies about Kenyan lung capacity? Because Kenyans typically win all the long-distance sports in the Olympic in the Olympics and Jamaicans are heavily Overrepresented in the sprinting sports, right? There's actually studies around this. Yes. Yes. Yes I mean, I guess you would say very athletic people. They generally have a higher What fast twitch count in their muscles? I have to do something between the transfer of oxygen through the blood through blood pass. Yeah So maybe a lot of top-level athletes whether they're black or not black whatever But like the stereotype is that black people are athletic, right? But so then it's higher, but then there's still obviously a lot of athletic non-black people. So I guess like I Guess what I mean is like I Know what everybody's thinking that one they're not shocked by this because they're like, oh Asians got the gene to be smart or genes to sit down and study math. Well That's not mind-blowing Right the black guys dunk in the ball the Asian guys dunk in the books Yeah, that's what you're meant to do now now due to our genetics We're all meant to do that but it only accounts for 10% and really your environment is gonna count for everything else However, it is true that in America, let's say for example, Andrew We're slotting kids into like different lunch tables that 10% could make you excel at something and then make you identify with that thing And then that lane in life, whichever one lane you end up getting slotted into your cultural position and do the fishbowl You're born into it keeps on rolling from my right, right. Yeah, but then at the same time I mean, there's a lot of people who fall out of academics who are smart a lot of people are born smart that never, you know Maximize their capabilities. There's this one quote from another study. That's part of this article and it's written by the scientist The conclusion I draw is that despite the relatively high genetic irritability shown in most brain processes associated with learning meaning that yes some level of brain power is inherited. We this is not shocking, right? Educational practices are a key contributor to a student development allowing genetically based skills to be enhanced or alternatively Diminished therefore one of the main goals of education in a changing and uncertain world should be to form Adaptable and versatile people who can and want to make the most of their capabilities So it's all about maximizing yourself at the end of the day for sure And there's this whole new field of epigenetics which means in the first three three to five years of your life Your genetics can actually shift a lot of people thought your genetics were like stuck in a womb or whatever like that I'll say this growing up in a I would say highly academic Chinese family Andrew I'll say this being conventionally academically smart from like a metric Analytically trackable level was extremely important. It was your identity It was your self-worth and for better or worse Andrew, obviously, we know not all Chinese families are like this But a lot are right your self-worth and how you see yourself in the mirror is tied to how well you are doing at school Social pressure is huge And then once you kind of get into that flow once you've been pushed to achieve high and then you can already achieve High and things become easier then you're just gonna keep doing that and it makes sense, right? But well, that's what you do as a person. That's what you're built for essentially at that point It's not what you're born for it's what you're built for like building Happens throughout your life being born is one thing and you are born a certain way But there's also things that can change you in your early in the truth It's not everybody has a huge ass energy bar to take every rep of everything They do in their life with 10 out of 10 intensity, right? But I'll tell you this in a nerdy Chinese family or nerdy Asian family Andrew any math problem science problem Verbal thing related to the SATs you're taught to approach every rep So seriously and it kind of reminds me of the way Denzel is training his son at basketball and he got game Or I looked I was looking up some footage Andrew of Luca Donchich training when he was 12 years old with these crazy rubber bands around him People are hitting him with like the training sticks and he's shooting jumpers with rubber bands tied around his body Look at how intense they're taking those reps, but just imagine that But for something more academic, right? So yeah, it's just all about your training and Yeah, anyway, let's just get into the comment section Somebody said garbage study did not consider social historical cultural geographic attitude considerations meaningless I mean they didn't mention that in the article. They mentioned that Educational attainment is a very specific thing. So it takes a lot of environmental and factors and structures Because you can't attain any education if there's no school in your village, right? You're saying let's say for example, you have really high edu years chromosomes, right? But you're born into a country that has no political stability or a lot of infrastructure instability or like natural disaster You're born on a farm 50 miles away from the nearest school How are you gonna achieve high in school when there is no school for sure for sure? You I guess you'll never get to utilize those things You know what it kind of reminds me of to enter there's a lot of P Really tall players that are born in Africa right now, but they're not getting the NBA training to go to the league Right, they're playing soccer growing up until somebody finds them, right? Anyway, this comment is from a white guy. It says that's bogus. It's the culture Western society has put past all the glory years and now everybody is just going towards a balanced life Asians aren't there yet. So they are still mostly driven by their parents and they say Asians are now at the forefront And want to succeed a competitive world. This is Asia's time essentially, right? This white guy is basically saying like come on man. We already did all that man last 300 400 500 year We just chillin now, right? So I guess Asians are still got that like Kind of like hey, I'm new to this. I'm working hard type like I'm an immigrant. No, I mean There's some truth to it like let's see and or let's analyze the old money families in America The guys who like built up all that wealth in like 1890s or 1920s, you know like Rothschilds or something The Rothschilds that exist now. They're just chillin, right? But the guy somebody had to do the work somewhere, right? Um Some guy says this study is so goofy. Why are Japanese so low on the Educational attainment chart compared to other like for example like Indians when you said Japan is a much better country But actually what people don't understand is it does have to do with immigration waves because most of the Japanese that immigrated to America in the early 1900s Andrew were actually uneducated farmers Like that's you know what I mean like from to Hawaii or the West Coast, right? Right, right. Right. So like like we said this guy was also pointing out that immigration ways how people came Also explains a lot of like group inequities, right, but there I guess they're ranking Asians in Asia because they did Taiwan and Korea so the study is with Taiwanese and Koreans not in America, but you know, but people were verifying this study with undergraduate attainment statistics in America So that's why you know no like it correlates interesting ultimately man, I'll say this I'm not really that surprised I don't even know how much I believe in it But I just know that the culture you're raised in and what you are taught to see in the mirror every day And what that person is supposed to deliver on every day That's about a function of like ten thousand or at least a thousand different factors when you're being raised Yeah, I agree, you know, I mean let's say The attainment accounts for 10% what's the other 90% right the other 90% is big Yeah, obviously if you're smart from a young age and you're told that you're smart and You do feel smart then you're gonna identify as a smart person and then you're gonna continue to do smart things That's and you're going to develop normative behaviors with a reference group that you also identify Yeah, and then you're gonna hang out with smart kids Your friends are gonna be smart blah blah blah I knew this girl who was an adopted Chinese girl Okay, and she was born into a family with one other adopted girl that was from Chinese and one biological sister And she said that she was the only one that identified with the nerdy Asians growing up in the suburbs of North Carolina Of Chapel Hill and then ended up getting a scout full ride scholarship to college when neither of her other siblings did Right they grew up in the same family Because she said they grew up in the same family But she just happened to relate to that like boba drinking meme sharing crowd that was like all into it That was her friend group. So she developed normative behaviors. She hung out with the SAT squad Yeah, because she looked like them, but then she said even her adopted other sister didn't do that Yeah, well, you can even be from the same family and experience different things Is it just her 10% gene that made her want to just be so much smarter. There's other factors too. So I guess I Guess, you know achieving a Educational degree there's so many more factors to that than there are even to just Being smart and having a high IQ, right and even achieving a high IQ There's probably still factors that play into that. So everything Yeah, it is true that if we want to get into ancient history Literally East Asia or Confucius or like Confucian culture or scholastic culture or like China invented national exams though Yeah, I mean wouldn't the people who invented something Typically be pretty into it. Yeah, that's a whole nother story though I'll pop up some links anyway guys Let us know what you think of this study in the comment section below Is it valid not valid valid nature versus nurture versus nurture? Who knows? We encourage the debate until next time with a hop-hop boys. We out. Peace