Her book survived the writing and editorial lottery, so there's that.
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... Serious academic voice: "Because farmers have no choice but to play the genetic lottery with their crops, all key nutritional indices have remained roughly unchanged for 10,000 years ... oh wait."
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... "Think of all those animal breeders trapped in lunatic schemes to trick the genetic lottery." "Totally. And thank goodness human mating isn't selective."
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Are you serious? The idea behind the genetic lottery metaphor is that children don't get to choose their own genes, not that parents have no control over their offspring's genes.
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How is that anything like a lottery?
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... It's raw Rawlesian psychosis hiding in the petticoats of a nonsensical metaphor.
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... "Hey, you could have been simply anybody, you know." [Neural empathy module run amok.] "Why on earth would you say that?" "Religious reasons."
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world government to enforce random mating
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I'd say it's more rigging the roulette but she has an anti-embryo selection piece
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SPERM: Stochastic Parental Entitlement for Randomised Mating
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as i've stated, i selected my wife randomly in order not to practice eugenics which is evil
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Same. The RCT was kind of awkward, and some of the women in the control group got really mad when they found out, but I'm glad we stuck to the protocol and avoided any replication crises.
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Feminism = assortive mating = genetic / financial inequality Love it!
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It’s a lottery in the sense that no one “earned” their genes.
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Right, but the parents earned their kids' genes.
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Did they? Assortative mating doesn’t allow you to stack the deck in a way that permits you to perfectly predict each hand dealt.
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Close enough.
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Not close enough for me. Have you ever looked at the children of beautiful parents? The children of athletes? Nobel laureates? Regression to the mean can be a problem, as can recessive alleles.
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You should submit those photos to a genetics journal.
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