By: Nekliw

Nekliw — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:19:46 +0000

Does anyone have the link to the actual paper? I’m interested in seeing how they separated the shifting culture since the Cultural Revolution.

By: Judy K. Warner

Judy K. Warner — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:20:08 +0000

Bill Bannon, shortcuts are used in reporting on studies. It is assumed that people understand that no study finds all people in any group the same in any characteristic. Most measures are bell curves, so that most are in the middle and few are on the ends. The differences between groups mean that the middle of the bell curves are in different places. “Striking contrasts” between groups means large differences in the averages, or maybe small, statistically significant averages but the researchers want to get noticed. It may be that most of the only children in Jesus’s day were little emperors. It may be that Abraham’s son Isaac was a little emperor once his half-brother was kicked out. But the study says nothing about whether any individual fit that description, since both groups are distributed over a wide range of variation.

By: bill bannon

bill bannon — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:44:51 +0000

Glad the article got less simplistic at the end.
Christ was a singleton.

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