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Galton's law is going to give these people a rude awakening.
by rhelz 4y ago
Galton's law is going to give these people a rude awakening.
- b-team 4y agoExplain
- stevelini 4y agoIt's a regression to the mean argument. Tall people won't have even taller children. They'll have shorter children because the average must be maintained. So very exceptional people will have less exceptional children. Giraffes disagree.
- distant_hat 4y agoIt is not a 'law' in the Physics sense. People have done some very interesting things with selective breeding in plants and animals. It will largely work for humans too just that some effects may be dampened (or accelerated) by culture.