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https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/692474630205001728 https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/692474630205001728 One of the most consistently replicated fi
by moultano 11y ago
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/692474630205001728 https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/692474630205001728
One of the most consistently replicated findings of behavioral genetics is that the environment shared by siblings (parenting) has no effect.
- awl130 11y agothat link is great
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- zardgiv 11y agoDon't you find it disturbing that behavioral genetics, as a field, is unable to find actual genetic evidence for its most replicated correlations? (See the response to your linked article.) Rather than reevaluating their assumptions, instead they've decided to punt to the idea that it _must_ be that it's actually many small effects that they just happen to be unable to measure? Additionally, if you were a parent, what would be the practical advice from this finding?
- moultano 11y agoMostly I find that it keeps me from worrying too much. My wife and I can just do our best and not be concerned that we are causing irreparable damage. (It also keeps me from caring about parenting fads like TFA. Whatever works for our family is probably good enough.)
- zardgiv 11y agoYou didn't answer my first question. Additionally, why would you do your best, though? As you said, it has zero impact.
- zardgiv 11y agoI'll take the lack of response as an admission that you were at best unaware and are now embarrassed by your ignorance, or at worst don't actually believe what you're posting as fact on the internet.