[HN Gopher] Nature and nurture contribute to signatures of socio...
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       Nature and nurture contribute to signatures of socioeconomic status
       in the brain
        
       Author : geox
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2022-05-18 18:43 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | bigmattystyles wrote:
       | Once again illustrated by Sunny perfectly - how Dennis and Dee
       | don't think of themselves as white trash because unlike Mac and
       | Charlie, they grew up rich. Nevermind that they're just as poor
       | as them now... Episode in question:
       | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1636178/
        
       | ogurechny wrote:
       | > signatures of socioeconomic status in the brain
       | 
       | Oh well.
       | 
       | Some people believe that propaganda is good when it's a
       | propaganda of something good. These people probably know what
       | everyone knows, but they don't seem to understand that the whole
       | thing is way too similar to finding racial differences in cranium
       | measurements and such -- and it doesn't matter if the conclusions
       | they want to support are the direct opposite of "bad" ones.
       | Taking arbitrary human-invented properties of objects in human-
       | invented stratification model of something objectified and then
       | called "society", and stating that "genes" and "brains"
       | absolutely have to have some projections of those is not much
       | different from complex reasoning based on "Qi" or "divination".
       | 
       | Of course, a swift reply that _all_ science is tying discreet
       | observations to intentionally simple imaginary models is
       | expected, but that 's a next step in our argument.
        
       | rayiner wrote:
       | I read the article twice and I counted just one solid description
       | of a scientific finding:
       | 
       | > Looking at the two scores together, they accounted for about
       | 1.6% of variation in total brain volume, a finding that had been
       | seen previously.
        
         | SemanticStrengh wrote:
         | That is a small effect, I assume phrenology would have better
         | yields
        
       | JohnClark1337 wrote:
        
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