Time to chill out a little before I get offended that anyone is suspecting me of lying or of not going to a 'decent' university (or before I die laughing about the assumptions being made there ).

If I were to be convinced by such a study I'd want it run over 20-40 years with probably more than 100 individuals. I base that on the idea that goldies live 20-40 years, grow throughout their lives and have a large variation in the breeding characteristics after all the decades of being mass produced. I've kept about 30 goldies over the years and they've all been very different, so I don't think it would be unreasonable to look at using more than 100 But really it's the duration that is the key for me here

Ok think time out is needed in this thread so I am locking it for the time being it will be reopened if Admin sees fit to allow it to continue