"... my default assumption since the 1990s has been to begin by guessing that, for whatever trait is under consideration, genetics and the environment are about equal in influence." takimag.com/article/twins-… ...
... My default is far more contrarian. Official dogma would require far less hysterical policing if it wasn't in approximate direct opposition to reality.
... Taking eye color as a model trait helps.
Nature or nurture -- which has the greatest influence on you not being a fruit bat?
... If anthropo-normative parenting wasn't preventing people raising their kids as fruit bats, who knows?
... Monogenic traits can be taken as a valuable clue as to the probable heritability of polygenic traits.
... This is to switch the focus of attention from phentoypic traits to genotypic characteristics, i.e. deep biological features that will be similarly expressed phenotypically under similar conditions. (Ref. Steve's Hegelian obesity thesis.)
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"Noooo, we want to know whether people are actually fat!"
"How much quality racism can you do with that, though?"
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... "Corporations are woke, meaning left wing on social issues relative to the general population, because institutions are woke. So the question becomes why are institutions woke?"
... "... how bad people want something to happen ..." is a nice Gnon-slip.
"Tessica Brown hired an attorney and is weighing litigation against Gorilla Glue, because while the product’s label warns against using on eyes, skin or clothing – it does not mention hair ..." nypost.com/2021/02/08/wom…
... Apologies for sharing this, but I had to know what "Gorilla Glue Hair Horror" was, so then you had to.
... The disparate impact of commercially available functional adhesives is an under-reported social crisis.
The foundational principle of Macro since its inception is that no deflationary currency should be permitted to exist.
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... Economics is going to be the professional discipline with the greatest anger management issues over the next few years. Krugman is the avatar of this. ...
... They'll recommend Bitcoin being crushed by government action, which would convert it from a comparatively docile exit option into a planetary war of secession. ...
... Macro-nationalism has always been the back door to socialism -- or even the front door -- and it will be again, once the Left gets its shit together. ...
... Just as the left took over neoliberalism, it will take over the nationalist revival (within a decade), so circuit-breakers have to be built in from the start. ...