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ChristianKl comments on Open Thread, May 4 - May 10, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 04 May 2015 10:51:48AM 3 points [-]

The question is, are they testing these?

The case is made over twin studies. If you believe that parents equally try to get all their children hooked on reading, it's factored in.

getting children hooked on reading (worked for me and I guess for 75% of LW)

You assume that the people here wouldn't have getting hooked on reading if their parents didn't encourage reading.

Comment author: SanguineEmpiricist 04 May 2015 06:01:11PM 1 point [-]

It's too far against nurture. This is pushing against the limit for hard reductionism there are definitely non-genetic emergent effects while maintaining the absolute good taste of genetic arguments.