> Maybe colleges and scholarships that make admission decisions based on adversity can someday objectively measure it by DNA methylation. Also for reparations or welfare benefits.

> A low methylation score could be interpreted as a call to mature a child's tissues more rapidly by the curated application of adversity.

The paper didn't even find a unidirectional correlation between methylation and adversity. They say right in this article that some adversity was correlated with changes they would expect to see with slowed aging (which does not mean adversity slowed aging, it's just a marker).

Those markers are also correlated with many other factors like the size of the animal.

It's not a marker of adversity.

> released hatchery fish have ~10% of the survival rate of wild fish.

Is that inclusive of the entire egg->fry->fish cycle? I wouldn't be surprised if wild fish had extremely high "infant mortality" compared to hatchery fish

Gattaca (1997) - IMDb

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177

I am not sure if your initial paragraph was meant to be sarcastic. I do believe we should give additional help based on economic need rather than race or skin color.

Free universal preschool seems to have big impact. Also free universal school lunches are too. There may be other examples too.

lol, you might change your mind when reparations end up going out to a very different set of people than you expected.

That's certainly a solution.

Maybe colleges can just accept the best students and do their job of educating them instead of arrogantly appointing themselves as saviors and righters of all wrongs in the world.