{"id":233060,"date":"2026-03-11T10:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/genetic-factors-drive-the-link-between-cognitive-ability-and-socioeconomic-status"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:06:33","slug":"genetic-factors-drive-the-link-between-cognitive-ability-and-socioeconomic-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/genetic-factors-drive-the-link-between-cognitive-ability-and-socioeconomic-status","title":{"rendered":"Genetic factors drive the link between cognitive ability and socioeconomic status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetic-factors-drive-the-link-between-cognitive-ability-and-socioeconomic-status.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study of German twins suggests that the strong connection between a young adult\u2019s cognitive ability and their future socioeconomic status is largely driven by their genes, rather than shared family environments or random life events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study of German twins suggests that the strong connection between a young adult\u2019s cognitive ability and their future socioeconomic status is largely driven by their genes, rather than shared family environments or random life events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}