Bay 12 Games Forum
Finally... => Life Advice => Topic started by: Rolepgeek on January 09, 2016, 10:24:25 pm
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How many B12ers have attached earlobes?
I know it's a weird question, I might end up changing this to other interesting things, but I need to ask for a class project and I have little other way of obtaining a sufficient sample size. Besides, it oughta be interesting to have a thread I can mess around in.
So...Not too much else to say, really. I'll present final statistics about the data I've gotten after a few days or weeks, so that oughta be interesting, I suppose.
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Can I ask what the project is about? Research on genetics?
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Basically, yeah. Have to get a population size of 30+ for monogenic trait(s) and find out likely allele ratios for it, take those ratios and produce a random set with them, then take the results from that, and apply it to a new random set, rinse and repeat for another few generations.
We're expected to find that many people over the weekend, unfortunately. Which would be difficult for me to do.
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I see teachers are still expecting unreasonable goals from their students.
Things never change.
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If you're going to ask Bay12, why not try GIS as well? Look at random pictures of people, check what their earlobes look like. "Stock photo model" is about as valid a phenotype as "Bay12 user" to select people by.
Or alternatively just bullshit the entire thing, since the input data doesn't really matter for the process itself.
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What about Google images of faces? That must count for something.
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Google image search: Earlobe
https://www.google.com/search?q=earlobe&biw=1360&bih=657&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjK7qXdvZ_KAhUEzz4KHT51BgwQ_AUIBigB
Select 30 images using a randomized method. Rinse, repeat.
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teachers don't know about muh
Although the "free" vs. "attached" appearance of earlobes is often presented as an example of a simple "one gene - two alleles" Mendelian trait in humans, earlobes do not all fall neatly into either category; there is a continuous range from one extreme to the other, suggesting the influence of several genes.[5][6][7]