I agree with where you’re coming from, but please tread lightly on the ‘men and women have different brains’ thing.

I assume the “1 out of 11” refers to speakers at the wider conference. So basically men make up an extreme minority of those speaking, yet all five of the speakers on this panel... making the absence of a woman even more ridiculous.

Obviously:

That study is very old. More recent and reliable estimates reveal that the study derided in that link severly *under*estimaded the number of birds cats kill:

That was such a bizarre time.

I would buy that!

I love the books so I'm pretty sad about this. I've been really disappointed with how the show treats female characters and rape. The show also erases the really interesting moral ambiguity of a lot of the characters. I just don't think it's as good. Oh well.

Does this mean work tiaras are over? Are we supposed to just wear them with our yoga pants? I guess I'm okay with that.

The New York Times also published an article about gender bias by students towards teachers (just so you know it goes both ways):

As a liberal Texan, I will freely admit that our politicians suck. However... It's a bit much for Jon Stewart to say the rest of the country would be better off without us. After all, he's speaking from an island whose main exports are fox news and corrupt, too-big-to-fail banking.

I can't believe schools will take you out of class for violating a dress code but not for being unvaccinated.

"Do you believe that the CIA and CDC use different data sources?"

The data for 2014 isn't out yet. You might expect it to go up, but that's just speculation. Here's a quote from that article:

*Nobody* is counting pregnancies per woman when they are talking about total fertility rate. The total fertility rate (which *always* uses births per woman not pregnancies per woman), according to the cdc, is: 1.86. This article was published a mere month ago, and the report I linked was published just last week.

I don't understand what multiple births has to do with anything. It's basically just an interesting side note that correlates with women having children at older ages. Twins are still counted as two births... to count it any other way wouldn't make sense.

Here's an article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/us/…

Your numbers are a bit out of date. The U.S. hasn't been at 2.1 since before the recession.

Looks like an interesting book...

The sad thing is that there is a real problem Huckabee is speaking to: There are certain problems and perspectives that don't get attention because they are not happening in places the media focuses on. I live in Texas, yet I knew much more about the race for mayor of NYC than I did the recent race for governor of…

It's hideous.