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What do you think about The Nurture Assumption?
In short: I don't aim to influence their personality. I have given up on that long ago. Instead I aim for knowledge. Knowledge is not heriditary and evolution better not throws knowledge passed on from parents to children out of the window.
I researched the effect I can have on the life success of my parenting and came to the concusion that effects exist - esp. at the high end of the spectrum. I haven't written about that yet and need to pull the references together first. One quote from the Handbook of Parenting Vol. 4 I just looked up:
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For the Greman speakers this is the introductory paragraph I already wrote for the blog:
Out of curiosity, do any of these account for heritable factors such as by using behavioral genetics approaches or dealing with research like that summarized in The Nurture Assumption?
I'm not much of a writer, and this might not be the final version, but I still like giving advice.
I'd really like to see some citations and references here. Are all those opinions based only on you own observations or also from things you have read? Since I don't have children, I'm not interested in the answer to that question, but your readers will be.
Ich würde "auch durch die natürliche Gehirnentwicklung" hier entfernen, da es eigentlich keine Informationen liefert. Außer du hättest villeicht irgend eine Referenz um deine Behauptunt (Werte werden in der Puberät in Frage gestellt) wissenschaftlich zu untermauern. Dann könnte das statdessen hin.
Zu sagen, dass etwas von Evolutionärem Nutzen ist, da es den Fortpflanzungserfolg steigert ist (zumindest nahezu) eine Tautologie, braucht also eigentlich nicht gesagt zu werden. Dass etwas was den evolutionären Erfolg steigert dem Individuum nutzen muss (du schreibst "nutzt [,,,] den jungen Erwachsenen"), stimmt meines Wissens nach nicht (Egoistisches Gen und so). Was ich hier wirklich gerne wissen möchte ist, warum Selbstbestimmtheit deiner Meinung nach den evolutionären Erfolg steigert.
Thank you for your feedback. Yes I have quite some references to back that up. I didn't give them because they are unordered and incomplete and I just wrote the text as a first draft. I'm unclear about how to include them. Options I consider:
references only via linking correspondings passages
Inline references (short with links)
references at the end
writing separate posts with a focus on the particular referenced topic.
I'd really prefer the last one as it'd also bridge the inferencial gap behind it and I started to structure some post in that way, but it is also the most complex approach.
Rules (Regeln) and values (Werte) are two different things. Developing what's commonly called a "growth mindset" seems important and is something I would put under the category of values. It's something where my teacher at school really messed up and that I learned later in life.
A refreshing breath of good style in German instead of the usual drivel I get links to, thank you.