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but is the first myth really true? Does anybody take into account more modern business practices of putting tens of thousands of smart people in a small geogra
by seiji 11y ago
but is the first myth really true?
Does anybody take into account more modern business practices of putting tens of thousands of smart people in a small geographic area? That leads to smart people breeding with smart people which seems to be a known catalyst for spectrum disorders.
Before the mid 1900s, we didn't have mass service/technical employment (read: companies requiring "smart" employees instead of interchangeable factory labor) or ease of global relocation on a whim. You'd grow up on a farm, meet someone from your town, then settle down in your own town, and the cycle would repeat for generations.
- jerf 11y agoThe problem with figuring out what causes autism is not the shortage of viable theories, but the abundance. Yes, that is a well known theory that is taken into account but isn't any easier to tease out from the mass of data than anything else.
- VLM 11y agoThere does exist a mythology that we were all hunter gatherers until the first internet bubble, however, Harvard was founded in 1636, I have an ancestor who was an English prof there in the early 1800s, ancestors who were "in the area" for the last 400 years. We should have plenty of data from other ivies vs nearby similar sized towns without higher ed.