A pair of identical twins won a $1.5 million defamation lawsuit after they were accused of cheating on a Medical exam.
Their lawyers presented evidence to the court of the twin’s education testing history, showing that they have scored similarly in the past.
Nancy Segal, a professor at California State University, Fullerton, who also runs the school’s Twin Studies Center, testified on behalf of the twins. She told the court that research shows identical twins generally score similarly in IQ scores and specific mental strengths and weaknesses compared to fraternal twins.
“Identical twins do tend to show similar patterns, similar test-taking behaviors, similar wrong answers because they process information in the same way,” Segal later told theThe jury ultimately agreed with the twins’ legal team and Segal’s assessments and awarded them damages totaling $1.5 million last month.lawyers, a decision they arrived at separately, theThe twins told Insider that they hope to one day want to help others with complex defamation suits similar to what they faced.
“We did not want anyone to have to go through what we had been through, ever again,” Kayla said. “We switched paths so that we could at least try and ensure sure that people don’t have to endure what we did.”
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