Faithfulness in human beings-genetic

Here's some empirical observations on faithfulness in human beings. By faithfulness I mean monogamy-you not cheating on your partner. I believe it is genetic.
This is valid only with humans who are free to choose their sexual/love partners-which means primarily in the Americas and Europe. Asian countries which support institutions like arranged marriages are not a part of this group.

I have known a lot of human beings in the Americas (North and South) and many people form Europe as well. I have tried to look at human beings just I would look at any other animal; and even though it is hard sometimes, I am getting better at it.

I believe that there is a percentage of population, somewhere between 5-20%, which is GENETICALLY faithful. These men and women do not cheat on their partners. They may practice serial monogamy; they may have lots of amorous relationships sequentially, and even have orgies when they are not attached to anyone; but when they are in love, and especially when someone else loves them, even if they are not in love, they will not cheat on their partner. They cannot cheat on their partner, even if consciously they want more sex, more variety, etc. I believe this is genetic; there is a gene or a set of genes in these people which makes them behave this way.

This faithfulness behavior is similar to homosexuality or left handedness-two other characteristics which are also genetic in my opinion.

There are some Swedish researchers who have found evidence in this in some animals. However, my observations are empirical and are limited to this variety of human beings living in the Americas and Europe. The rest of the population in this group, 80-95%, is not faithful; they are sleeping around even when they are married or have a boyfriend/girlfriend who is ostensibly their formal partner.

I can give some examples of people I know quite well who I know are genetically faithful; maybe some biology researcher has an interest in finding out what's common in the genome of these human beings.

Sanjay

Empiricism and how far we are from it---markets and weight loss

I continue to get more and more empirical in life-trying to lose the bad things we have learned from our ancestors (hidden sometimes in words like "culture"). Continue to believe that one of the biggest authors of our times, probably the only one even, is Taleb. His site here.
He opened my eyes to brute empiricism, and I have taken it further to many walks of life, not just financial markets.

On financial markets-stock market is nothing but a game between humans. The numbers called stock prices keep going up and down; and other humans want to take your money. It hasn't got much to do with the economy---as much as they would like you to believe it. Maybe in the long term it is-but what is long term? If 25 years is long term-I dont want to "invest"--I am happy getting in and out at different times from the market-trying to be a trader catching the market's moves. It is only sometimes that I can see clearly where the game prices (stock market prices) are headed-and that's when I bet. Bet big, sometimes; that's been my general mantra for success. Probably 10% of my trades account form 90% of my profits over the last decade or so that I have been involved in the financial markets.

Now to weight loss. Here's some interesting empirical observations on it.
People will go on diets, start doing exercise, etc. etc. but I have found that they always revert back to their normal weight. From empirical observations-I can say with good confidence that the weight of a human being can't be changed by "conscious" behavior; it is probably determined by their genome.

For one human being-let's say a male-his weight is an increasing function of age. As he gets older; he will get weightier. The individual's weight will vary only maybe +-3-5% from this function-which is determined by their genes. They can't control it-it is the same as trying to control your temperature or your heart beat. For short periods of time they might lose or gain lots of weight (short period would be a few weeks) but then they will revert back to their natural weight, +-5%. Dieting, exercising etc. dont help-I know plenty of cases where they have failed to say that you can't lose weight by doing that. I also have plenty of cases where slim individuals I know take no special diets or do special exercises.

Another important observation is that just as you can't lose weight beyond maybe 3%, u can't raise it more than 3% either by conscious behavior (dieting, exercising). Their is a natural upper limit---regardless of the tasty food you have at hand.

Liposuction is probably a solution. But it is temporary-u will pick it back up.

These are some empirical observations on weight. Dont try to lose weight-u will lose that battle.

And don't believe in buy and hold; it's a game, stupid.

Sanjay