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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

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 107 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

And, honestly, calling it "the experiment" is pretty rough.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] brianary@startrek.website 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't even know they had GPS that long ago.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't get it... German joke?

Garmin, the GPS company

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe a Garmin joke? Even though it’s spelled with an i not an e, like the asterisk censored word in the comment?

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, Girman