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To: Mrs. Don-o; EarthBound

The part that made me stop was where it stated that “normally there are 106 males births to every 100 female.”

This is an outright lie. It is on average about 100 to 100 and deviated one way or the other several times in history. This is something taught in biology in middle school.

Some times one gender is favored more than the other, but then, sometimes you flip a coin and get nothing but “heads” for 20 flips.

I will note that no small part of this is coming from the standpoint that it’s about pollution.

Seems we have some Goreans trying to convert a few Darwinists.


9 posted on 02/28/2008 3:45:11 PM PST by MacDorcha (Arm yourself!)
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To: MacDorcha
If you google the words

"105 male births to 100 female"

you get 60 results which mostly contain sentences like this: "Most countries report 105 male births to every 100 female." Looks like a basic accepted average to me. Readers are, of coourse, free to glance over this page and form their own generalizations.

21 posted on 02/28/2008 5:15:38 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Male and female He created them.)
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To: MacDorcha
but then, sometimes you flip a coin and get nothing but “heads” for 20 flips.

True enough, but just to be a little more precise, let's replace "sometimes" with "about one time in a million."

28 posted on 02/28/2008 8:20:19 PM PST by Zero Sum (Liberalism: The damage ends up being a thousand times the benefit! (apologies to Rabbi Benny Lau))
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To: MacDorcha
The part that made me stop was where it stated that “normally there are 106 males births to every 100 female.” This is an outright lie. It is on average about 100 to 100

No. It's not. The number varies a bit among various population groups, but not by much for any large group. Something else to add into that is that infant and juvenile mortality for boys is higher, which leads to women being a majority (extended lifetime for women pushes the numbers even further).

46 posted on 03/01/2008 1:36:17 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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