> >According to the University of Minnesota Twin Studies, which
> >studied many pairs of identical twins separated at birth, a "rule of
> >2/3" seems to apply. Roughly 2/3 of one's emotional preferences
> >and intellectual tendencies are due to genetics, and 1/3 to
> >environment. Joe
>
> and what does that mean. emotional preferences could mean that they are
> sensitive or prone to depression. intellectual tendencies could mean
> that both twins are quick to jump to conclusion and make inferrences
> (like you ;-) ideas are not passed genetically. more specifically,
> naziism is not passed genetically.
>
> sure, similar emotional tendencies to hitler would perhaps make the
> clone a social leader and perhaps easily influenced by hatred, but it
> wouldnt not make the hitler clone be a nazi. emotional tendencies from
> ones environment could mean that if one was raised by people who were
> abusive when they got angry, that they too would be abusive when angry
> (people whos parents beat them might beat their children...)
>
> unless the hitler clone lived in the SAME environment, surrounded by the
> same people, doing the EXACT SAME things, and becoming host to the SAME
> memes... and that EVERYONE and EVERYTHING were the same as they were 70
> years ago it is HIGHLY unlikely that hitlers clone would become the
> leader of the fourth reich (hehehe).
> ~the great tinkerer
>
It means nothing more nor less than what it says. No hypotheses
were presented, no conclusions were drawn; merely the statistical
results of a scientific study were given. Joe
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