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What psychology experiment would you love to carry out if neither ethics nor practical reality stood in your way? (…)
I would collect all newborn babies and randomly reassign them to new parents. I’m confident that we will confirm the 50-0-50 rule: Adult personality is roughly 50% genetic, 0% how they are raised by their parents, and 50% socialization outside the family by peers and friends. I think we will discover that within a broad range, it doesn’t really matter how parents raise their children. Parents are enormously important for children, not because they raise them, but because they give them their genes.
-Satoshi Kanazawa (The Scientific Fundamentalist) is an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics.
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Mr. Kanazawa,
As an evolutionary psychologist you clearly have little to no experience working with real live human beings. (…)
Do you really believe that a kid raised in a happy, healthy and loving home will turn out the same as a kid raised in an angry, hatefull and abusive home? If so you must not have kids of your own. (…)
-Tony Malinda
photo { Richard Lester’s Petulia, 1968 }
