Feel free to remove this, mods, if it’s too tangential to modern science, but I thought the community might find this early nature vs. nurture hypothesis amusing

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 month ago

    He caught one of the nursemaids speaking G*rman to the infant and the experiment had to be aborted. RIP

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      1 month ago

      I think after it’s born, it’s just a murder.

      And, honestly, calling it “the experiment” is pretty rough.

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        29 days ago

        As opposed to what? ‘‘That time they intentionally prevented infants from being taught important foundational skills that crippled them for life because they had severe misunderstandings about how language works’’?