Solvent comments on Polyhacking - Less Wrong

75 Post author: Alicorn 28 August 2011 08:35AM

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Comment author: Solvent 30 August 2011 08:03:14AM 0 points [-]

there are all kinds of studies around saying that most of the things we'd expect to have an impact on the long-term outcomes of the children actually don't

Can you please give examples of this? It sounds fascinating.

Comment author: Barry_Cotter 30 August 2011 10:36:41PM 2 points [-]

The Nurture Assumption covers a lot of ground, reviews a lot of the scientific literature, and concludes that for many, many traits of interest you can divide the factors effecting them into non-parental environment and genetic factors leaving squat for parental effects. It's a great book.