not arguments.

not an argument

you cannot tell behaviour from phenotype, you can generalise, but that rarely works at an individual scale.

yes

the generalization is what is important, to me

since western societies are based on individualism, phenotyping is useless

no

genes are everything

indeed, but societies seem to function better when they are homogenous, therefore phenotyping would still be useless

I don't care for classifying alien species too much

I only care for my kith and kin

So my society should be homogenous, how would phenotyping my kith and kin help?

it is functionally useless, a dead end, do not waste your precious cycles on it

your usually quick to answer nature seems to have evaporated, maybe some critical thought process has been catalysed... I'm going to assume silence equals agreement in this case.

yes

cool

that is why I make someone else waste their time on it

and then tell me

fair enough

Anyone know a source where one can buy paintings that Hitler painted? many thanks.

An original? That seems like it would be valued at the price of a small country

Literally the world's most famous man

Second perhaps to Jesus

OG hitlers fetch very low prices at auction

Can be bought pretty cheap

If that were the case I'd expect them to have been bought up by rich collectors with a grudge, to burn for virtue points, until the value of the remaining pieces was driven up

Let's not give anyone any ideas tho

Most of his are just copies of postcards he saw. Not true originals

Oh, that explains it

Does anyone in here have a understanding of genetics?


Does anyone know if recessive genes are ever eliminated or do they always get passed down even if they don’t show up in their off spring for many generations?

Neither of my parents have blue eyes but I do. Neither of my brothers have blue eyes either but is it certain they also carry the recessive blue eyed gene, even tho it didn’t show up

I have a basic school understanding of genetics, does that work?

My understanding is that recessive genes may still be present, many generations down the line, as they may or may not have been passed on

Being recessive just means that they require special conditions to be expressed, but they are no more or less likely to be passed on than any other gene

Of course at this point @iamwhoiam is probably already dead of old age

https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/

Fair warning, I got obsessed with playing the HTML5 pigeon-breeding game on the site

@Nerthulas @Aqua

ok

what was their proxy for 'extroversion' - how well does that proxy represent the reality? what was their proxy for IQ? how well does that proxy represent the reality of intelligence? this was a sample size of 118 people from a specific setting

to me, the study is little more than worthless on the question of the relationship between intelligence and extroversion

certainly nothing to base a theory on