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Old 03-September-2008, 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen View Post
I would rather say that since the role of environment is unquantifiable all we can say with confidence is that environment IS a factor and that the effect of environment at the moment is strong enough to drown out any genetic difference.
Yes, that would indeed represent a more careful way to state a similar conclusion. But the conclusion can be slightly stronger-- we further know that when environmental factors disappear, so does the differential, so there can't be much signal there "to drown out" in the first place.
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