On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes and no, a preference for sauerkraut vs croissants is almost certainly > cultural. > On the other hand, lactose tolerance is most definitely genetic. There's no > single clear answer.
Preference and intolerance are two vastly different things. :) And, I should add, I had meant to push the other boundary in saying there is no genetic influence. I believe there most certainly is, but I would bet the influence of the sex is far far far outweighed by other genetic influences. So... >> I'm not against extending the logic, so much as I suspect it is false >> entirely. > > It's not false entirely, but *any* argument taken as an absolute here has > got to be wrong... I fully cede this. I can modify my statement to say that I would expect it is false as often as it is actually true. Simply put, simplified models are often helpful to begin, but fall well short of fully explaining a situation. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
