NEWS: Scientists Figure Out Why You\'re Such a Dick

Unless it's a big dick.

HEY-O!

I guess I'm adopted then.

Well, its always been my belief that most of a person's temperment is inherited anyway (although the way in which that temperment is expressed is based a lot on environment), so I wouldn't be suprised if the findings are mostly correct. Even so; one can still have the 'anti-social" temperment and still function all right in society. Its really more of a matter of learning to control such things (of course, if your primary role models can't; well, there you go)

As for the comment on; if being anti-social is genetic, why hasn't it been bred out? Well, I personally wonder why the bad eye sight in my family hasn't been bred out; there is something which is certainly genetic, yet it keeps showing up in every generation. Or, for that matter, what about families with bad hearts? Those keep sticking around as well. Hell, for a more extreme example; I knew one family with a strong tendency towards mental illness, each generation has SEVERAL examples of it. Yet, that same family keeps managing to reproduce.

No way, look at Oliver Twist! Years of unspeakable hardship, but good as gold to the end. Dickens knew what was up. It's SCIENCE.

i hear that! looks like they swung too far to the nature side of the debate, and they forgot abt the nurture. should we just execute all kid's if they, for instance, have a parent in prison (a broad indicator and i am not saying it is MY CRITERIA but one characteristic of being 'anitsocial' is having been arrested...)

ridiculous!

i just spit out my drink laughing. that was genius.

yeah.... I would have thought that they'd look at the adopted case first to try to establish a genetic basis.... to take the case where the kid is raised by their genetic parents isn't isolating the variables at all well...

There has to be so many factors at play here, and studies are so subjective - one of the freelance things I do for a University hospital is to research the research studies, and it's pretty outrageous at times.

This, having no real sources for the sources listed, likely is not worth my time looking into, but I tend to agree that Nature and nurture are intertwined inextricably; i.e. gentetics may very well play a part, and I believe they do, but that's just a part of it.

Of course, I may just be wanting to take more credit for my own dickliness than is due.

After all these years I can let it out and be proud of who I am. Now I can let my dickiness show through.

No longer well I wear my dick on my sleeve, I'll wear it over my cold black heart like a badge of honor.

I'm gonna call my father and thank him and tell him I really was listening but since I'm such a dick I just didn't wanna hear it.

It's amazing how many years it took me to realize no matter how much I tried to be different, in the end I really am my fathers dick.

I sure am glad a case study pointed out my parents are assholes. I couldn't have figured that one out myself.

THey laid out the DNA in rows, fool. That's what those gels are. Then they shook the jar to see if they fought. It's THAT EASY.

I'm going to quote you out of context and say...

You mean the Y chromosome???

This seems to me a rather curious argument, right up there with "I'm fat because my mom's fat (not because we eat the same food every day)," and "I've got BPD because my mom has BPD (not because she used to lock me in the celler for asking for seconds)". Children learn from mimicking their adults, and there's a whole mess of evidence for that.

Of course, I haven't actually read the source article.

It's science, it's about fucking. What's the problem?

oh yes, of course, leave it to science to just look for another scapegoat. I mean, why would anyone want to focus their efforts on something USEFUL.
I guess it's my extremely sociable parent's fault that I'm such an introvert at times right?
Must be.

I guess no one's ever read Prozac Nation.

I dunno even if these findings were accurate, that says nothing to those traits being permanent and unchangable. I hate when people blame their negative traits on that being 'just the way they are'.

I taught kids with behavior disorders for a long time. Trust me there is a major interaction between genes and environment. We had a set of brothers that we had to keep a close eye on because they were just hoodlums and guess what, so where their parents. BUT, we had some kids that were all kinds of screwed up that had really awesome parents. I do have to say that the majority of my kids on house arrest had screwed up families and their lives just became a self-fullfilling prophesy of their screwed up parents expectations. I'd like to see sources and stats for this study.

Never hurts to prove the obvious.

It's not true unless Bill Nye verifies the validity of this study.