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	Impossible Experiments (1)

Silkweaver

7-6-2008 6:15 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/df38dbaa-b74d-4410-b018-ce84b8fe20c2/6BE2BB6A-DD58-412A-BC07-EABC138A5F9C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200807/impossible-experiments" href="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200807/impossible-experiments" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.psychologytoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200807/impossible-experiments">What psychology experiment would you love to carry out if neither ethics nor practical reality stood in your way? For the August issue of <I>Psychology Today</I>, I asked several <I>PT</I> bloggers this question and printed four responses.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200807/impossible-experiments"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.psychologytoday.com/img/E1411252-7CDA-4730-960F-E11A72B40781" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200807/impossible-experiments"><B>Musical Storks</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200807/impossible-experiments">I would collect all newborn babies and randomly reassign them to new parents. I'm confident that we will confirm the 50-0-50 rule: Adult personality is roughly 50% genetic, 0% how they are raised by their parents, and 50% socialization outside the family by peers and friends</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200807/impossible-experiments"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.psychologytoday.com/img/116D0FF9-0400-4F25-9DAC-4649E0714C62" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200807/impossible-experiments"><B>Universal Grammar</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200807/impossible-experiments">I would entirely determine the sentences and words children are presented with during their infancy and childhood. For instance, you could entirely deprive children of examples of some linguistic constructions.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200807/impossible-experiments">Then see whether children develop a normal linguistic competence. 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