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Though not those related to people's choice to get tattoos.
by tempestn 2y ago
Though not those related to people's choice to get tattoos.
- esperent 2y agoTattoos are so common these days that I'm not sure you can say much about a person just because they have tattoos.
- tempestn 2y agoAny given person, for sure. In aggregate though I bet you'd find correlations.
- tyre 2y agothey are statistically cooler
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- rightbyte 2y agoWhich is a strong confounding factor ... "Sharing traits common in motor cycle gangs increases risk of cancer - new study"
- robin_reala 2y agoNot sure you could in Sweden. Stats[1] show 21% tattoo prevalance in Sweden compared to 12% in the EU in general. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10163470/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10163470/
- gwern 2y agoNo, it would control for a lot of those factors. Things like impulsivity, sexuality, sensation-seeking etc. All very heritable or family-level. If you ever find any correlations reported for tattoos between family members, it's gonna look like everything else: steeply increasing with relatedness.