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Strangers Spot People With Compassionate Genes in Seconds
- araneae 15y agoThis was especially cool for me because I have an account with 23andme, and this SNP is sequenced with them. If you're also on 23andme you can see what your genotype is: https://www.23andme.com/you/explorer/snp/?snp_name=rs53576 https://www.23andme.com/you/explorer/snp/?snp_name=rs53576 I'm AA, meaning I have the least empathetic phenotype.
- Andrew_Quentin 15y agoNonsense. These studies are just averages and statistics not facts. People have control over their perceptions.
- araneae 15y agoWhat's nonsense? Obviously there's individual variation. Any individual person with AA could have more prosocial behaviors than any individual person with GG. It's still cool that a difference in behavior is detectable by others even in a relatively small sample.