9 Responses to “Nature or Nurture?”

1. 1 1 Harold
   September 15, 2015 at 10:59 am

   Do you share the same barber?

2. 2 2 nobody.really
   September 15, 2015 at 11:20 am

   I see a guy just trying to listen to the ballgame on TV while his neighbor insists on yapping on about pirates on Google or somesuch.

3. 3 3 dzkrist
   September 15, 2015 at 1:32 pm

   Looks like a game with three pure strategies, at least for largeish persons. One can throw one’s one leg over the other. The thing to avoid is that a person on the right hand side of the sofa (his/her point of view) throws the right leg over the left and the person on the left hand side of the sofa throws the left leg over the right.

4. 4 4 Roger
   September 15, 2015 at 5:29 pm

   Looks like a simple sofa power play to me. You sat diagonally and crossed your leg in order to limit his manspreading, and raised your elbow to take over the intermediate high ground as well. There is room for him to raise his right elbow, but it would come dangerously close to your elbow, and no man wants to touch elbows with another man, even if you are his son. If there are 100 coins on the table, I say that you earned first shot at dividing them.

5. 5 5 maznak
   September 15, 2015 at 5:46 pm

   Mimicking posture etc is a primate’s subconscious way to show friendliness and some moderate submission. The only question is who was in this sitting position first.

6. 6 6 Daniel
   September 15, 2015 at 8:04 pm

   RE Maznak has it, it appears that there is serious serial correlation issues, since you are sitting right next to one another, so our analysis will obviously be biased. What we need is a twin Steve, separated at birth, raised by another family and someone who can investigate their sitting preferences without being noticed.

7. 7 7 Khodge
   September 15, 2015 at 9:28 pm

   So you going to tell us which is you?

   It’s been known for many years that how one crosses one’s arms is nature. It is not a big leap to go from one’s arms to a given posture is going to be similarily comfortable with a genetically similar body type.

8. 8 8 iceman
   September 16, 2015 at 2:06 pm

   #3 yes each crossing to the inside would be an undesirable outcome. Especially if one of them is not wearing shoes

9. 9 9 Keshav Srinivasan
   September 16, 2015 at 5:41 pm

   Steve, off-topic but are you going to cover today’s two debates the same you covered them last time?