the assumptions of the twin method would have to hold for that claim to be justified, but, in any case, seeking an abortion is an action, not a behavior, so it's not a “heritable” trait i.e. there can’t be a genetic disposition to abortion
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possessing a vagina makes you more likely to wear a wedding dress
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Behaviors don't come out of nowhere. They're not totally random.
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Some people (like
@_attlee) don't understand the meaning of the First Law.@Race__Realist -
for “genetic confounding” to be justified you’d have to identify genes that dispose one to have an abortion and to develop an anxiety disorder, dispose one to have an abortion independently of disposing one to develop an anxiety disorder, and vice versa
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Here: you need the First, Fourth, and Fifth laws: https://www.unz.com/jman/the-five-laws-of-behavioral-genetics/ …
@HbdNrx@Race__Realist -
asserting that genes explain variation in incidences of abortion (how would that work?) doesn’t establish confounding
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Scratch that. You don't need those laws, you need something more than I can give you.
@HbdNrx@Race__Realist -
heritability is a variance ratio, you need to identify a mechanism to justify "genetic confounding"
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