I have a friend whose parents came to the US from Holland, and I believe he's 6'6" (201cm). He said it was really strange when he went to Holland to visit family because he's so used to being a head taller than everyone else - looking out over a crowd - but in Holland there were tons of people as tall as he.
Very interesting that the article says the current Dutch generation is shorter than their parents.
"Regression to the mean", it was studied a century, or so, ago. It's not about stress directly but the average/ natural/ non-stressful height is the most probable outcome indeed.
This was Francis Galton, a British polymath of the 19th and early 20th century, who observed that certain characteristics of parents -such as height- are not passed on completely to their children. If parents' heights lie at the tails of the distribution in both directions, the heights of their children tend to lie closer to the mean of the distribution. Simply speaking, tall parents have kids shorter then they are, and short parents have kids taller than they are.
Galton invented what we today now as linear regression.
The article says that the Dutch children are now shorter than their parents. I was wondering whether this is simply a manifestation of the regression toward the mean, first discovered by Galton (and published in 1886)?
Evolution (natural selection) doesn't work that way though. That would only work if either people started only having kids with shorter people, or those stresses you're taking about caused people to die before having kids, which I didn't think is happening.
"they were not supportive of asylum seekers’ freedom of movement and would prefer them to live in a designated place (respondents were 8.3% more likely to choose the latter option ... "
But who do they think does this designating, and according to what criteria, is the result really anywhere near optimal for anybody?
Doesn't it make more sense for people to have the option to move, in their own time, to where they can find housing, jobs, languages they know etc., than be stuck in ghettos where they happened to gather due to various short-term factors ?
Doesn't it make more sense for people to have the option to move ....
Certainly. The most important outcome of this study imho is that there is a significant gap between the public/political debate and the peoples' sentiment.
If anyone is allowed to bully the Swedes, it's us Finns, and we do it in a hockey-ring.
We don't have any submarines in Finland though and our navy isn't the strongest, but we'll do our best to help you Brother Sweden. Which has usually been good enough in regards to Russia.
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That draft decree by the Russian defence ministry, which has since been removed, proposed that Russia wanted to revise its borders with Finland and Kaliningrad (based on a resolution adopted by the Soviet Union’s council of ministers in [1985]) and expand its territorial waters.
They just removed the floating bouy border w/ Estonia
It is a tourist hotspot by Swedish standards. Visby is a picturesque old-fashioned town where quite a few people go for a few weeks, and additionally, hosts events including an annual festival of political debate and, a week or two later, a medieval reenactment festival.
If we only had a market lead in solar power in Germany. Oh we HAD that! we also just happened to have conservative politicians who decided to sell that technology to China.
If only we had corporate structures in Germany building wind turbines that were competitive. Oh we HAD that...
I find the economic decoupling of great powers very troubling for the future stability of the world. To avoid a world war, and to actually have a chance to address climate change and other world-scale problems, we need more economic interdependence, not more "sovereignty".
You mean free trade policies might result in foreign companies coming in and outcompeting local ones here instead of just allowing our companies to go into, take over, and outcompete their ones? How could this happen? Who could have possibly predicted this turn of events? How could anyone else’s companies come in and do unto us exactly what we’ve been doing to them for the last half century?
Why, next your going to tell me that in a free market a company with lower labor costs that is willing to slash profit margins might actually gain market share over a collection of companies that collectively decided not to compete with each other on margins./s
I recon if we in Europe don't start to ensure our own energy we will slip from Russian dependence (gas) to Chinese dependence (EV and solar panels). And we should educate the usefulness of nuclear energy and get rid of the fear it causes. The amount of coal we burn causes more radiation than three mile island, Chernobyl and Fukushima combined.
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