Strangers Spot People With Compassionate Genes in Seconds (livescience.com) 6 points by araneae 14y ago ↗ HN
[–] araneae 14y ago ↗ This was especially cool for me because I have an account with 23andme, and this SNP is sequenced with them. If you're also on 23andme you can see what your genotype is: https://www.23andme.com/you/explorer/snp/?snp_name=rs53576I'm AA, meaning I have the least empathetic phenotype. [–] Andrew_Quentin 14y ago ↗ Nonsense. These studies are just averages and statistics not facts. People have control over their perceptions. [–] araneae 14y ago ↗ What's nonsense?Obviously there's individual variation. Any individual person with AA could have more prosocial behaviors than any individual person with GG.It's still cool that a difference in behavior is detectable by others even in a relatively small sample.
[–] Andrew_Quentin 14y ago ↗ Nonsense. These studies are just averages and statistics not facts. People have control over their perceptions. [–] araneae 14y ago ↗ What's nonsense?Obviously there's individual variation. Any individual person with AA could have more prosocial behaviors than any individual person with GG.It's still cool that a difference in behavior is detectable by others even in a relatively small sample.
[–] araneae 14y ago ↗ What's nonsense?Obviously there's individual variation. Any individual person with AA could have more prosocial behaviors than any individual person with GG.It's still cool that a difference in behavior is detectable by others even in a relatively small sample.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 15.4 ms ] threadI'm AA, meaning I have the least empathetic phenotype.
Obviously there's individual variation. Any individual person with AA could have more prosocial behaviors than any individual person with GG.
It's still cool that a difference in behavior is detectable by others even in a relatively small sample.