The Plot Thickens

What clicked their mind was the fact that all three of them came from a different socioeconomic background. Robert hailed from an affluent family. His father was a doctor on the other side, Eddie belonged to a middle-class family. David got adopted in a working-class family. His adoptive father owned a store. 

A Predetermined Decision

Normally, the selection of adoptive parents for twins or triplets are done randomly regardless of their socioeconomic background. But here it seemed the family was selected purposefully by the agency. So all the things were planned but why?   

The Truth Revealed

They got the answer to their question from a journalist named Lawrence Wright who had been following the case closely. He stated that the triplets were involved in a study that centered around the question if a person’s development is shaped by its life experience or DNA. Unfortunately, it was not only these twins who had been made the guinea pig but five more sets of twins too.   

Guinea Pig!

In order to achieve the accurate result, it was necessary for the conductor to have control on as many variables as possible. Besides, other things have to be common between them. Although the triplets were sent off to families with the different socioeconomic background they all had a sister two years older than them. That wasn’t coincident, that was planned.

An Immoral Experiment

In its earlier stage the “nature vs. nurture experiments” processed many interviews and assessments done many years after the twins or triplets moves away from each other. However, here the interviews and assessments remained constant from their birth to the time they got matured. 

The Ultimate Irony

So who was the mastermind behind this? It was Dr. Peter Neubauer, a child psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst by profession. During those times, he was placed as Manhattan’s director of the Child Development Center. Neubauer belonged to Austria and was a World War Two refuge. Not only that his way of conducting the processing the study had stark similarity with experiments conducted during World War II in the mid-1940s.