[kdwikzncba]

Some times it blows my mind to discover that some bleeding obvious things arent well established. Next thing you're gonna discover that kids with funnier parents tell more jokes, or that kids with angrier parents shout more.

[dang]

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[andyferris]

Of course the interesting science would be - nature or nurture?

Eg in a “village” would the kids of quiet parents be exposed all day to all these other talkative people, and therefore the effect disappears? Or is it genetic?

[mewpmewp2]

Great identical twins studies would be very interesting here.

And I agree due to the complexity of this, it's one of the most fascinating questions out there. How much and with what kind of likelihood I as a parent can influence my child?

Because due the complexity of it all, it sometimes also happens that bad parents providing bad environment and perhaps bad genes as well, get good children and vice versa. No one likes the ideas of this happening though as it dismisses the idea of responsibility, and no one likes the idea that they won't have 100% control over raising their children.

It would be great to know the exact odds, e.g. if you classified parents into different buckets, how often could it happen that with whatever rules that are perfect environment would it happen that children happen to grow up in a bucket where they aren't with desired characteristics.

Then sometimes identical twins who grow up with same parents, still become different personality wise. What exactly explains that? Is it that one of them just happens to take the leading role in their relationship and the other just balances and the difference between them snowballs because of the dynamic they just built with each other.

[FirmwareBurner]

It may be obvious, but as a relative HN long timer, I've been hit too many times with the "source please" when making statements based on what I thought were obvious well known things, so studies like these are ammo for those sticklers who insist on seeing the sauce for everything.

[lnxg33k1]

Are you sure it's obvious? I have parents that are always joking and what they transmitted me is to hate everything, in my experience people tend to hate the traits they grow up with and to which they're continuously exposed, as I hear often "Who did he take it from?"

[redcobra762]

The whole point of study is to break down these “obvious” conclusions and make sure we understand the exact causal chain, free of confounding variables. Extremely often something is studied that seems “obvious” and turns out to be anything but.