I have a challenge for you, Ken. These findings are all based on medical research. Please find below a "profile" of a human trait that each person has one of, there are two distinct possible traits. Further, that the practice of this trait tends to conform with the inbuilt and natural trait desire -- though people could temporarily (for any number of reasons) change their behavioural trait to be that opposite their innate trait.

This data, BTW, is not controvertible. It is accurately reflective of the trait.

This trait majority/minority pair may have been, or maybe still is, anti-biblical. I don't know. You're the claimed religion expert.

Please tell me: What human trait do you think it could be that I've provided a description for?

Definitions of terms, if you don't have a dictionary handy, are provided at the end. If you have any questions, please reply.

Thank you.

DISTRIBUTION               Stable bimodalism, behaviorally expressed.
                           Majority and minority orientations.

POPULATION                 Majority orientation:          92%
DISTRIBUTION               Minority orientation:           8%
                           Minority orientation males:     9%
                           Minority orientation females:   7%
                           Minority Male:Female ratio:   1.3 : 1
                                                         (30% higher in
                                                         men than women)

CORRELATION                Does minority orientation correlate with:
                           Race?                                No
                           Geography?                           No
                           Culture?                             No
                           Mental or physical pathology?        No

AGE OF FIRST BEHAVIOUR     around age 2

ORIENTATION ORIGIN         Is either orientation:
                           Chosen?                              No
                           Pathological?                        No

ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR       Can either orientation:
                           Have external expression altered?    Yes
                           Have interior orientation altered?   No

IS THE TRAIT FAMILIAL?     Yes

FAMILIALITY PATTERN        "Maternal effect" implies X-chromosomal
                           linkage.

PARENT-CHILD SEGREGATION   Little to none.  Trait of adopted (i.e.
                           non-biological) children shows no
                           relationship to that of adoptive
                           parents, indicating a genetic influence.

SIBLINGS HAVE INCREASED    Yes.  Elevated rate of the minority
RATES OF MINORITY TRAIT?   orientation in families which have other
                           children with the minority orientation.

MONOZYGOTAL STUDIES        Are monozygotal ('identical')
                           twins more likely to share
                           minority orientation?                Yes

                           MZ concordance for minority orientation
                           in comparison (vs background rate):
                                12% concordance (vs 8% normal occurence)
                                i.e. orientation is 1.5 times higher.


"Maternal effect" -- tendency for trait to be more prevalent in
        occurence among the genetic mother of the subject.

"Parent-child segregation" -- the study of whether any "parental
        effect" is a biological one, or an environmental one.  If
        there was a parent-child linkage, it may be environmental
        through upbringing.  To study whether this is biological or
        genetic, we can observe the familial structure where parents
        are *not* genetic parents in both directions (i.e. parent(s)
        having trait, children not having trait, or vice versa).

"Monozygotal concordance" -- the chance that a co-twin whom is from
        the same zygote (commonly misnamed 'identical twins') has
        the trait.

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