🧵 universal vs sex-dependent brain circuitry in predicting partner preference
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 11:38:34 UTC No. 16463429
Would your sister be able to predict your (a male) preference in girls better than other acquaintances? (or vice versa)
Basically, because you are genetically similar with your siblings, you should have similar brain circuits. My theory is that even though male and female sexuality are different, it would still likely overlap with other general brain circuits, so your relative of an opposite sex might be able to somehow "get" your preference better than a random person, even if they don't feel that way personally.
To test this, the male test subject should bring his sister and a female acquaintance for control. The test subject will be given pairs of images of girls and asked to pick whichever is most attractive, and the control and sister, should pick whichever they think the test subject prefers. Then you could compare results between the control and the sister to see if the genetic similarity gives her an advantage in predicting the subject's preference.
To better isolate the effect of genetics, you might want to use a sibling or close relative that were separated at birth, and a non-acquaintance participant for control, though the event of having been separated might also confound the results. Not sure what's the best methodology.
With classified test images, you could also test what kind of variables (like body proportions, skin color, facial features) your sister can predict better, indicating it's part of an universal thought process associated with your genetics, and see which preferences can't be predicted with opposite sex brain circuitry. It could even be that your sister would be worse than control at predicting some preferences, indicating that the opposite sex would directly invert the output of some brain circuits.
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 12:11:29 UTC No. 16463459
The genes are shuffled during meiotic recombination in a weird way that results in genetic siblings having 50% of their genes in common with each other and 50% a shuffled mess drawn from whatever genes are in the gene pool in general.
So, siblings should be 150% as correct at random guessings of mates as unrelated acquaintances would otherwise be. For every two instances of a friend guessing correctly, a sibling would have three correct guesses.
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 14:14:10 UTC No. 16463545
From anecdotal experience (encounter and awareness of all siblings I have encountered and am aware of) siblings can be very different and have different tastes
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 18:11:07 UTC No. 16463862
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Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 19:47:39 UTC No. 16464008
>>16463862
Certainly! The nicest, shortest way to bake a chocolate cake if you are low on eggs, is to not post bot bait on genuine threads, and put it in the cake instead.
As for the joke about chickens, nah, not going to because.
>>16463545
Of course individual variation is bigger, but siblings should be more similar on average.
Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 12:47:10 UTC No. 16464854
>>16464008
>Of course individual variation is bigger, but siblings should be more similar on average.
Basically your asking to determine which of x amount of siblings is wisest and most intelligent, or suggesting the benefit of seeking council to get opinions. Usually this is done by inviting sigother for dinner or holiday to meet the parents and family.
If a brother or sister is really unsure if they have picked the right one, I geuss it makes sense to ask family opinions
"I have no clue what type of sigother I should be with, help me senpai"
"A good one"
"I don't know what good means"
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Nov 2024 21:54:26 UTC No. 16466493
>>16463429
Likely yes, I think it depends on how good friends you could be with your family in comparison with others, I know it happens that a man could break up with his girlfriend and start dating the girlfriends best friend instead, because the friends of your girlfriend are similar to your girlfriend. So if you "like" your sister, and your sisters friends are similar to your sister, then whoever your sister likes, you should also like more than what chance would give