It’s not about their case for being there. It’s about their desire to be distinct from them. Harder to “other” and genocide your own people.

I just have memories of the early days of genetic sequencing research breakthroughs and the Israeli government started to order it’s scientists to sequence the Israeli and Palestinian DNA to “prove” their difference… only to very quickly learn they were almost identical, stop the program, and try and stop people from talking about it.

Without looking at the sources, I’m going to assume it’s because, genetically speaking, Palestinians and Israelis are almost identical.

Edit - yep… That’s the kicker.

I was ready to be blown away by some interesting data and instead I’m reminded why scientific publication is so disappointing… Some very suspect data sets and analysis going on.

Looking at the data, in the study that website links to, the mean erect length has only gone up 10%. The numbers they’ve used in that quote would mean they’ve basically taken the smallest length measured within the 95% confidence interval and compared it with the maximum instead of the mean…

This is also across the whole world. The “maximum” length in the 95% confidence interval hasn’t changed much at all, while the minimum has trended up. To top it off, the most tested “length” from the 1940’s is “Stretched” which has actually gone down over time.

I don’t think there’s a lot of useful information that can actually be derived from this study other than “people with better living conditions and who eat healthier end up with bigger bodies”, which we already knew when you look at height and muscle mass. Oceania, Africa and South America have had the biggest range (4.5-6cm between smallest and larges), and Europe, Asia and North American the smallest range (1.5-4.5cm)

Omg… I think I’m showing my age 😅 I thought that was “ask jeeves” (pre google Internet search thing) and it was a joke about developers looking things up so the time on the job

Februay feels weird to say

It’s Cthulupillar!