Nature or Nurture?

My sister snapped this picture of my Dad and me sitting on a couch:

No, this wasn’t posed. It’s just how we happened to be sitting.

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9 Responses to “Nature or Nurture?”


  1. 1 1 Harold

    Do you share the same barber?

  2. 2 2 nobody.really

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    #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

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

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