pdf23ds comments on Why Don’t We Apply What We Know About Twins to Everybody Else? - Less Wrong

13 Post author: MichaelGR 01 October 2009 04:23PM

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Comment author: pdf23ds 04 October 2009 05:33:27AM 0 points [-]

As a young teen I played basketball with a pair of identical twins. One was fairly slight, the other rather stocky and an inch or two taller. Not sure why.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 October 2009 12:55:32PM 1 point [-]

maybe they weren't identical twins. Unless they did a genetic test they wouldn't know for sure. I read something once that said that a significant number of same-sex fraternal twins are misidentified as identical.

Comment author: MichaelGR 07 October 2009 08:03:33PM 0 points [-]

That is very interesting. I hadn't thought yet that the way we identify twins right now is just by looking at them ("they look pretty much the same, they must be identical").