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MinerMinecrafter t1_istu50b wrote

Reply to comment by IFuckedYourDadd in Newly published research is the first to show that stillbirth can be inherited and tends to be passed down through male members of the family. That risk preferentially comes from the mother’s or father’s male relatives—their brothers, fathers, grandfathers, uncles, or male cousins. by MistWeaver80

Isn't that basically the first thing you learn about genes at middle school?

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IFuckedYourDadd t1_istu981 wrote

Yeah. But I mean its reddit, probably have a lot of drop outs on here

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MinerMinecrafter t1_istuec7 wrote

And 10 year olds that are not supposed to be here

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asdaaaaaaaa t1_iswmyfp wrote

People highly overestimate the average age of people on reddit I'd imagine (and how many of them are actual people). I wouldn't be surprised if the average age was around 14 or so, like a lot of other online games/groups. Looking at certain popular comments, it's pretty clear sometimes many people here have never held a more career-oriented job, or done a decent chunk of "normal adult things".

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PfizerGuyzer t1_isucm1e wrote

Reddit has many Americans, whose education system unfortunately has them retain almost none of the information they learn for more than a day after the exam.

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EastTyne1191 t1_isvjcuz wrote

Learning, sure. But retaining AND applying that information 15-20 years later? That's a tall order.

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Mediocre_American t1_isu02u3 wrote

Nah, I didn’t learn about genes until 10th grade high school. And it was barely the basics. Had to relearn everything from uni or the internet.

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MinerMinecrafter t1_isu0jt7 wrote

What, I learned about genes at 6th grade primary school for the first time and then again at 9th grade

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D20Jawbreaker t1_isv1mzd wrote

I also didn’t learn of them til 10th and my teacher barely knew how to form a sentence. Wouldn’t let us use the word ‘things’ in her class it was trippy.

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MountainDewde t1_isw9nze wrote

That stillbirths can occur, or that siblings of stillborn babies carry the same genes? I don't think stillbirths were mentioned when I first heard of genetics.

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