Subject: Re: experiment
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 98 15:25:52 -0500
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>I've booked a roomful of undergraduates in 2 weeks time to repeat the
>classic Cavalli-Sforza (1982, Science 218, 19-27) cultural transmission
>experiment. My theory (sticking my neck out) is that because most of my
>students come from one-parent families the vertical transmission
>correlation co-efficients will be substantially weaker than in Cavalli's
>1982 cohort of well-heeled bi-parental Stanford undergrads.
Is there a source (besides the magazine) you could point me to at which I
can find out what this is all about- it may be classic to you, but it's a
prototype to me....
Or a brief synopsis?
Yours in ignorance-
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Wade T. Smith
morbius@channel1.com
wade_smith@harvard.edu
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