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The Chinese twins advertised in the subtitle look more like Colombian drug lord henchmen to me.

Which Shakespeare comedy(ies) has switched twins? I saw one at St. Albans' Trapier Theater in DC over 50 years ago.

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Twelfth Night, I believe.

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It's The Comedy of Errors. "When the Syracusans encounter the friends and families of their twins, a series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to wrongful beatings, a near-seduction, the arrest of Antipholus of Ephesus, and false accusations of infidelity, theft, madness, and demonic possession." Sounds like fun!

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Well, you just have to watch your six, guys. I can confirm by wished-to-be-forgotten dragouts, knockdowns, and indigestion that the venom clamors of a jealous woman really do poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

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https://mappingignorance.org/2017/10/18/science-fascination-interview-dr-nancy-segal/

"Nancy Segal with identical twins Adaylton and Adalton Leonel / Photograph courtesy of Mauro Silva Junior"

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They look like they're from China's northwest. Lots of Persian ancestry there going back at least 3,000 years.

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Perhaps this is just an unflattering picture of Dr. Segal, but she is the least-feminine woman I have ever seen.

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Nearly any two random Chinese of the same age look like twins

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lolol

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Not to them.

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True, and, according to David Reich's group, the DNA of Chinese people is far less varied than among other populations.

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One child policy was Deng- not Mao.

Mao was all about population growth!

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1979-2015 according to Wikipedia.

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And Mao died in '76. I hadn't realized it lasted 36 years. No wonder they're having difficulties (as if we're not).

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"Results do not apply in Sub-Saharan Africa."

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No surprises here. Good that the data exists though.

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So how close ARE the scores? Identical? An average of 2.3 points apart? What?

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What does the study he linked to report?

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"Professor Segal found in this Colombia case that the better educated city kids outscored the country kids on cognitive tests." is this a joke I am not enough American to understand? It looks to me this case too confirms nature>nurture: Jorge (engineer) and William (shop manager) do better than their fake-brother Carlos (clerk) and Wilbert (hodman).

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