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   Gerry Quinn to All   
   Re: Argument from authority [was: When i   
   08 Dec 08 17:53:54   
   
   From: gerryq@indigo.ie   
      
   In article ,   
   jamesd@echeque.com says...   
      
   > However, for socioeconomic status,   
   > social/environmental/cultural inheritance is   
   > indistinguishable from zero.   Socio economic status -   
   > which is what Aqua and company care about, is wholly   
   > genetically transmitted, not socially transmitted.   
      
   Why do you continually vitiate your arguments by going to idiotic   
   extremes?   
      
   The above is not only not supported by the paper, it is so silly that   
   even if the paper supported it, I would simply judge it to be wrong.   
      
   - Gerry Quinn   
      
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