The 1:1 ratio is Fisher's principle, which seems to generally hold. All I'm saying is, if you look at the actual data, recorded in hospitals and recorded via census, you'll find that the vast majority of countries have male-biased sex ratios. (See Human sex ratio wiki for basic info). This has been the case since it…

This. Human sex ratio tends to be about 105 males per 100 females at birth. There's a male bias even in societies which have no significant sex selection pressures.

It's not actually 1/2 in nature though. I recommend looking at the sex ratio wiki. There are many examples of animal populations with skewed sex ratios.

Indeed, sex ratio at birth is almost always in favor of males, which means that the article's logic is false. Not all variations of children are equally likely. In fact, they disfavor the likelihood of having more girls, which should slightly tilt in favor of boys having more sisters than girls.

You can always pay a poor person to have sex for you!

Your parents though, they always liked her. Respectable and from an influential family. Not like that good-for-nothing floozy you're running around with nowadays.

I also like how this interpretation of the experiment conflates "invariable white light" as "Without any stimulus". So, explain to me again Esther how a brain which is continually running could ever possibly exist without stimulus?

Should be fine so long as you don't remove them again. I can't imagine adding the files back in would affect a save you had started without the DLC. Think of all the people who bought the original and then added DLC later.

The link seems to suggest it would make sense to buy the DLC, remove the ~4 .dat files from the game folder, and then just reinsert them once you've gotten far enough along that they don't seem game-breaking.

I think you're definitely right. But it also comes from a worldview that's existed in medicine for a very long time which basically says that women and just men + ovaries. Basically men are seen as the base-case, and women are the same except when it comes to their reproductive system. We know this isn't true now, but…

This study strikes me as really, really bad. This may be behind a pay-wall, but I'm seeing the full article here (sorry if the link doesn't work). Basically, participants say a photo for 3 seconds, during which time they were asked to either rate physical attractiveness or "positivity". Either of which is probably…

It's uncontroversial that animals have communication. What Chomsky is talking about when he calls language uniquely human is communication + complexity. Human languages have crazy rules that are hidden to their speakers. While animal communication is uncontroversial, animal language is extremely. All the documented…

From the New York Times:

This could only get better if he were logged into your Skype account when he did it

Exactly, the comparison to dogs isn't what's offensive, it's the PUA women-can-be-easily-manipulated thing.

A friend made it into one of the short closed Betas they've been doing. He definitely was happy with what he saw.

While you're right they all stand a good chance of re-election, it won't be because of gerrymandering. Everyone gets to vote on their state's 2 senators. Gerrymandering will help to keep all those House Republicans in office though!

I think a lot of people travel twice for the holidays. I did a couple years of not traveling for Thanksgiving which was easier to convince the family about because I had a SO. Now there are no excuses! Especially since I'm a grad student and I technically get the time off. Although I've known people who've had parents…

I think the analogy of Reddit as enabler is probably the best way of thinking about it. People often have many enablers, and getting rid of one is unlikely to fix the real problem. At the same time, if you can stop someone from hurting themselves or others by removing an enabler, then why shouldn't you?

This is fair. Part of why its important to that group today has to do with its past. But that's really a complaint about the website rather than the community. It's fair to push for websites to monitor themselves, but we have to recognize that this community will always exist in some form or another. Even if we could…