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isandro · 07-11-2003, 03:57 AM

A couple of years ago I did exactly one year of a social-educational study, and the teacher asked us this question:
how much of your personality [you think] comes directly from your parents, and how much of it came from society and self-development? In other words, how much of your character was more or less defined even before you were born?
So we all filled in the percentages and came out between 10/90 parents/society and 40/60. We were all about 18-21 years old, and the teacher explained to us that he did the same thing with an adult class (35-60 y/o) and the results there were exactly opposite. It's always kinda stuck in the back of my head and I got curious what you people think of this.

07-11-2003, 03:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
isandro Crazy Location: Groningen, Netherlands	genes/upbringing vs. society A couple of years ago I did exactly one year of a social-educational study, and the teacher asked us this question: how much of your personality [you think] comes directly from your parents, and how much of it came from society and self-development? In other words, how much of your character was more or less defined even before you were born? So we all filled in the percentages and came out between 10/90 parents/society and 40/60. We were all about 18-21 years old, and the teacher explained to us that he did the same thing with an adult class (35-60 y/o) and the results there were exactly opposite. It's always kinda stuck in the back of my head and I got curious what you people think of this. __________________ -Life, liberty and the pursuit of hamburgers. Last edited by isandro; 07-11-2003 at 04:03 AM..