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by popularopinion 13y ago
You are correct, I looked up the original study and found that the picture book and the furry dog were actually the neutral condition toys. The feminine toys were a doll and a red cooking pan. Thank you for pointing this out, I will edit my
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by popularopinion 13y ago
It's very interesting that you bring up toys as an example, because it turns out there is quite good evidence that gender toy preferences are partially genetic. Think about this: if toy preference is just a social construction, if we r
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by popularopinion 13y ago
It's not irrelevant. Look through the HN guidelines [1]. Articles like this are definitely acceptable. - Hacker News Guidelines - What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than h
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by popularopinion 13y ago
I don't think that quote is relevant anymore. pg wrote that in 2009, and both HN and reddit have changed a lot over the past five years. If you asked him what he thinks about that topic today I'm sure he would say something differ
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by popularopinion 13y ago
Even if REEs are more common than their name suggests, with current consumption trends we're going to face massive resource depletion shocks within two decades as crucial industrial elements run out. New Scientist covered this several
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by popularopinion 13y ago
This puzzle has been on the XKCD puzzles wiki for several years. They have some very fun puzzles there. It's a huge timewaster, so only click if you have nothing pressing to do. http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/puzzles#Pri
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by popularopinion 13y ago
I have not read the book in question, but I have read Pinker's previous book The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature . In it, there is a section on the same topic where he argues that our belief that indigenous peoples live
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by popularopinion 13y ago
Here's a link I found to the paper in question: https://lesacreduprintemps19.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/nyb... From my quick reading of the paper, Nyborg is arguing that based on Denmark's current immig
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by popularopinion 13y ago
This article is currently linking to a link aggregator, the original link is here: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/11/google-...
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by popularopinion 13y ago
Please don't downmod the parent comment for being racist. Before rurounijones' edit, this answer was probably the most accurate. According to Wikipedia, "In 2011, the NBA was composed of 83 percent non-white players, includin
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by popularopinion 13y ago
The main way people exchange mouth bacteria is through dating This is not correct. During birth, babies are exposed to their mother's vaginal fluid which then transfers bacteria into the baby's mouth. This transfer introduces a