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As the educational book of Mastering the World of Psychology mentions, the nature-nurture debate is a debate about how much particular developments can be attributed towards the inherit qualities of a person versus the external environment. (Psychology, pg.6) Depending on whether the nature or the nurture is the root of a quality can be very important in understanding the concept, yet it can be very hard to determine which side it actually belongs, if even mostly attributes to only one side. In fact, as Mastering the World of Psychology also mentions, culture, although its specific meaning is not yet determined for the scientific community, can go as far as to not only determine qualities about an individual, but even what normal development would be considered! (Psychology, 10) As a result of the nature-nurture debate, t esting can be very hard, because both the genetics and the backgrounds of people can vary greatly. However, there is a sense of lenience when it comes to this: What, as the book would say, is multiple births. --or more casually, twins, triplets, and so on. In fact, one-third of all twins are specifically monozygotic twins, (Psychology, 50) which can be even more helpful. An artical from a science website explains an interesting tidbit, saying that by studying a quality's presence or absence in twins, scientists are able to use one twin as a control group while using the other twin as an experimental group, to try to determine if the quality's possibly an inherited nature or not. Admittedly, it also mentions that it is still not a perfect study, considering that many twins have to be used for a given study. (Study twins)

Jarrett, Christian, Research Digest "Why psychologists study twins" Web 27, April, 2013 http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2007/02/why-psychologists-study-twins.html

Wood, Samuel E., Ellen G. Wood, and Denise Boyd. Mastering the World of Psychology. 4th ed. Boston, Massachusetts: Allyn & Bacon, 2011.

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