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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 19 May 2015

    Blank slate article of the week: Genes unmentionable, even as a hypothesis. http://on.wsj.com/1ECviPk  via @WSJ

    3:23 PM - 19 May 2015
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      1. Alison Gopnik‏ @AlisonGopnik 19 May 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @WSJ Sound like more than mention to me. And in the form developmental scientists would standardly endorse.

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      1. Grammar Underground‏ @GrammarUnder 19 May 2015
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        @sapinker Ironically, poor people can't read this link because full content is only available to people who give Rupert Murdoch money.

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      1. Alison Gopnik‏ @AlisonGopnik 19 May 2015
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        @sapinker @WSJ "brain development - complex web of dynamic interactions between genes and the physical, social, intellectual environment".

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      1. damo suzuki‏ @buhzib 19 May 2015
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        @sapinker @WSJ The funniest thing about all these blank-slaters is that they likely SANCTIMONIOUSLY mock creationists.

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      2. Emily Willoughby‏ @eawilloughby 19 May 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @WSJ Gopnik, what a surprise!

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      3. Emil O W Kirkegaard‏ @KirkegaardEmil 19 May 2015
        Replying to @eawilloughby

        @eawilloughby @sapinker @WSJ Can you post an ungated version?

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      4. Emily Willoughby‏ @eawilloughby 19 May 2015
        Replying to @KirkegaardEmil

        @KirkegaardEmil @sapinker Here you go: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sbqdu14bdh3nk1y/WSJ-Gopnik-2015-05-19.pdf …

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      5. Emil O W Kirkegaard‏ @KirkegaardEmil 20 May 2015
        Replying to @eawilloughby

        @eawilloughby @sapinker pretty dull article. A study with N=58? Okay then..

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      1. Frank @frhuy@mastodon.social‏ @fhuysmans 29 May 2015
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        @sapinker Blank slate ditched once and for all? http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3285.html … & http://match.ctglab.nl/#/home 

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      1. InYourFaceNewYorker‏ @InYourFaceNYer 21 May 2015
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        @sapinker @WSJ Yeah but didn't you say in "The Blank Slate" that poverty is the majority piece as to why minorities score lower on tests?

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      1. Jane Ayres‏ @janeayres 19 May 2015
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        @sapinker @WSJ And epigenetics? Family stress?

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      1. yonk‏ @Mettaman1 19 May 2015
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        @sapinker @WSJ missing heritability problem

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      1. Matt Zeta Baen‏ @MattZetaBaen 19 May 2015
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        @sapinker But isn't more efficient to examine stronger causal factors before turning to genes, behavioral effects of which are often weak?

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      2. Synthetic‏ @SR71999 19 May 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        .@sapinker @WSJ It's Alison Gopnik, who also proclaimed that "[s]cientists have largely given up the idea of 'innate talent'..."

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      3. WvK  🌲‏ @WillvonKaenel 19 May 2015
        Replying to @SR71999

        WvK  🌲 Retweeted Alison Gopnik

        @SR71999 @sapinker @WSJ Yes, it's @AlisonGopnik, the article you cite:https://twitter.com/AlisonGopnik/status/570332250081853441 …

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        Alison Gopnik @AlisonGopnik
        My latest column, explaining more about why the idea of innate intelligence makes no scientific sense.http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-questions-we-should-ask-about-intelligence-1424275812 …
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      4. Synthetic‏ @SR71999 19 May 2015
        Replying to @WillvonKaenel

        .@WillvonKaenel @sapinker @AlisonGopnik Yes, believe it or not, I saw the article. Maybe she can comment on why the recent analysis of

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      5. WvK  🌲‏ @WillvonKaenel 19 May 2015
        Replying to @SR71999

        @SR71999 @sapinker Don't hold breath for @AlisonGopnik discussion. Since 2011 only 65 Tweets. So too, Twitter feed's a blank slate.

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      6. Synthetic‏ @SR71999 19 May 2015
        Replying to @WillvonKaenel

        @WillvonKaenel @sapinker @AlisonGopnik Sorry, I misunderstood where you were going. Yes, I see. Too bad no Pinker/Gopnik debate.

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