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Originally Posted by Cootey
I'm not familiar with the Jukes and Kallikaks reference (I'll have to look that one up later)
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I was also unaware of this reference and looked it up. Apparently it’s to do with case studies in genetics in the last bit of the 19th century. I won’t go into particulars here save to say one was determining criminality the other was focused on things that would fall under what we call neurodivergence today and if these traits were genetic or (I believe) sociological in nature. The studies themselves were probably fairly harmless though they would be used later in history for all sorts of horrors.
I don’t really see the connection to posting a thread like this in a specific device forum. Note I am not questioning the mod decision nor do I mean to talk about it. I simply don’t understand how the two are connected but perhaps you have to have both known the reference without Googling and been here when whatever event alluded to was happening to appreciate the comments.