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I do web development, system- and database administration in a small department at a research institute.
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Feb 6 |
awarded | Student |
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Feb 6 |
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Athletes: nature vs. nurture? last sentence disambiguated; added 62 characters in body |
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Feb 6 |
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Athletes: nature vs. nurture? I meant to say that if you got a test result from any direct-to-consumer-genetic testing company, you'd also get a long reading list of science papers, probably carefully selected. Another aspect of "comprehensive" is the "established research" thing. The state of the science is that it's not a single geneticist who speculated about some ideas, there are many teams who have found similar results. |
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Feb 6 |
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Athletes: nature vs. nurture? i removed the "comprehensive" word. |
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Feb 6 |
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Athletes: nature vs. nurture? added 1 paragraph |
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Feb 6 |
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Athletes: nature vs. nurture? @rg255: What the law school professor said is "I don't like questions like this narrowed down to 1 genetic test". That may be righteous, but I'm not narrowing it down. The original question asked for a quantitative estimation. Hence, the quote in my answer: we are talking about 2.3% differences here (which won't matter much for the general population) and the quote also says there are many factors. |
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Feb 6 |
awarded | Editor |
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Feb 6 |
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Athletes: nature vs. nurture? added 120 characters in body |
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Feb 6 |
answered | Athletes: nature vs. nurture? |
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Feb 6 |
asked | Do sulfate reducing bacteria help during the formation of the mineral dolomite in low temperature environments? |
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Mar 24 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Feb 29 |
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What can you tell about a person, having only their whole genome as information? Which level of certainty do you prefer? (If you want 100% certainty, you can tell less than if you were also considering risks and probabilities, and "Insecure knowledge", such as newest and speculative research findings. I hear that most things you could learn about from the genome are not that deterministic at all.) |
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Feb 1 |
answered | A good book for history of biology/biotechnology for lay people |
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Jan 14 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Jan 14 |
answered | Good source that explains the evolution of single-celled organisms “from scratch” |
