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[Rolepgeek]

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.

[Cheesecake]

Can I ask what the project is about? Research on genetics?

[Rolepgeek]

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.

[wierd]

I see teachers are still expecting unreasonable goals from their students.

Things never change.

[Harry Baldman]

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.

[Cheesecake]

What about Google images of faces? That must count for something.

[wierd]

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.

[SirQuiamus]

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]