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As an added note - this should be fun, I'm apparently the only person here who doesn't think this is just a terrible awful practice. *braces for impact*

Well, yes, but more because Eugenics is simply bad science. People are much much more than simple DNA, and people who think things like that DNA is a switch that turns on and off certain things about a person (like gayness, eye color, deafness, etc) simply don't understand developmental biology...

I'd guess one of two things. 1) Self selection; there may simply be way more deaf of hearing, so you come into contact with those who had issues due to your field of work with significantly more of them, making it seem much larger, when the percentage of developmentally delayed children as a...

I'm still confused with your statements, since they're not directly talking about the hypothesis I mentioned above. The reason I outlined it as I did was because I was separating the issues of literacy in English and fluency in ASL further from the flawed starting point of "Who's a better parent...

Wait, okay, what? You said that there were newer studies indicating one thing (that either deaf of hearing has equal to or greater literacy rates than deaf of deaf), now you're saying that no valid studies exist? I'm actually interested in the subject, but we're going in circles here. From...

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You do realize that neither of the people you've most recently criticized for being not entirely accurate are trying to impose their moral codes on anyone? Both, to the best of my knowledge, are in favor of keeping abortions legal. As long as you do, then carry on if you're enjoying yourself...

lol, wtf is happening in this thread now?

Is that when ASL fluency and literacy is held stable? For example, do the numbers look something like this: Hearing parents: 85 Deaf parents: 15 % of Hearing parents who are ASL fluent: 17.5% % of Deaf parents who are ASL fluent: 93.3% Literacy rate of deaf children whose parents are...

I think that's kind of the point, that Deaf of Deaf are far far more likely to be fluent in a fully accessible language to their child, not that Deaf parents are inherently better at raising Deaf children. If you learn ASL fluently and raise a Deaf child, then you're effectively allowing them to...

So's suicide. Doesn't mean it's the best option.

"Fake" isn't perfect, it's fake. So obviously everyone will say that they'd prefer someone "flawed but real", regardless of what they actually go for.

I think that's mostly because a large majority of the userbase here lives in the States and English is the de facto "standard" language, even if it's not technically official. If the majority of us were in France, then the comparisons would be to French. If we were in China, it'd be to Chinese, etc.

It literally is a distinct language. Look around online and read up on the history of ASL, it's not even originally based on English, it's based on a French sign language and the sign language of Martha's Vineyard. So it doesn't just "seem" that way, it is a linguistically distinct language, as...

Ezra Klein - The importance of the individual mandate Let me know once you've read this, if you still have opposition to the economic arguments of the necessity of the individual mandate, while still making insurance companies cover individuals with pre-existing conditions. If you still...

Don't say that. Some public schools don't suck. I was never a jock (I don't even like watching sports, lol), and I found a place in my schools because I was halfway decent at many things, and really really good at one thing (computers), and I had some teachers who didn't absolutely suck who took...

It was a massive handout to the insurance industry. Individual mandates? That's the insurance industry's wet dream! I understand that the mandates are necessary to have a functioning insurance ecosystem, but the HC "reforms" were nothing more than pandering to a large majority of special...

I never liked root beer, but A&W cream soda is tasty. On an unrelated note... I have to wake up for work in the morning, so I'm off to bed. Have a good rest of the night/evening.

I like ice cream. Can I get peanut butter and chocolate toppings?

Er, maybe I misunderstood your question. I'm thinking many teachers at schools teaching literacy are not fluent in ASL, which would explain lower literacy rates without implicating the language acquisition model itself (oral vs asl) for having an impact on the literacy rate.