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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 7 Jan 2017

    Hypothesis: Belief in the Blank Slate will be inversely correlated with the number of children one has.

    1:35 PM - 7 Jan 2017
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      2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 7 Jan 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Steven Pinker said it better.pic.twitter.com/4MStnQ58m2

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      1. Prasanna K‏ @prasanna_says 7 Jan 2017
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        w/7m frat twins boy/girl. Stunned to see diff behvr as early as a wk. Moved me from 50/50 nature/nurture to 80/20 nature/nurture.

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      1. Allen Downey‏ @AllenDowney 7 Jan 2017
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        Or maybe it's a step function that goes from 1 to 0 when n=2.

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      1. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 7 Jan 2017
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        as @sapinker said, the terminus technicus for people believing in the social construction of gender is "childless"

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      1. Britt Kim‏ @okayplanet 8 Jan 2017
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        Pinker put this subject to rest over a decade ago.

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      1. thomas hansen‏ @hansent 7 Jan 2017
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        3 kids. XP over last decade -> strong support for hypothesis. !blank is about it though...so awe inspiringly different from get go.

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      1. Manish‏ @mkagenius 7 Jan 2017
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        Could they be a blank slate of a different kind? which needs different type of ink to write on to it.

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      1. Amjad Masad‏ @amasad 7 Jan 2017
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        I've come to understand that belief in Blank Slate is a dualist one -- they believe that mind is totally separate from matter

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      1. Kal Solanki‏ @KalTheCoder 7 Jan 2017
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        I think "reading Black Slate" would be a sufficient condition for your hypothesis.

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      2. Nick Cammarata‏ @nicklovescode 7 Jan 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        does that imply that on the "nature v nurture" continuum, more kids pushes you further towards nature?

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      3. Nate Wienert‏ @natebirdman 7 Jan 2017
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        yea, see his next tweet

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      4. Nick Cammarata‏ @nicklovescode 7 Jan 2017
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        I guess there's distinction in nature btwn "similar to parents" or "somewhat random". Both are nature but v diff beliefs

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      1. Victor Ernesto  💚‏ @victorernest8 7 Jan 2017
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        could someone explain this to me please

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      2. Shawn Kung‏ @shawnykung 7 Jan 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        @balajis In fact, which transformational tech company has had a founder with kids? Not @Google @Apple @Microsoft @amazon @facebook

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      3. Mark‏ @logicmason 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @shawnykung

        SpaceX

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      1. Mark “I’ve never been to a rodeo” Mruss‏ @MarkMruss 7 Jan 2017
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        if, of course, you raise all of your children identically with no siblings and without gender bias, which none of us can do.

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      1. Panagiotis Kanavos‏ @pkanavos 7 Jan 2017
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        no way. Inverse exponent. At best 10^-x

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      1. Adam Hayward‏ @adambcn 7 Jan 2017
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        the Stephen Pinker book?

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