Posts with Comments by Sideways

10 years of Gene Expression

  • What happened to GC, anyway? Such a complete voluntary retirement seems odd. And congratulations and thank yous on 10 years of the blog that has probably taught me the most
  • Class and opposition to teenage sex: A life history perspective

  • Other factors that seem obvious: poorer people are more likely to think that their children will become mothers or fathers in their early teens, a poor 16 year old mother is much less likely to be able to get an education and/or a decent career path, wealthier parent/child sets are more likely to all agree that abortion is an acceptable option...
  • Popularity of pretty boys and frequency dependence

  • It's simply silly to group ugly musicians with pretty boys. The major sexual draw for women regarding musicians is clearly their musician status, not their looks.
  • HIV in Africa

  • Europeans and Americans often have more partners over their lives, studies show, but sub-Saharan Africans average more at the same time. 
     
    I read a good refutation of that somewhere, I think, but I can't remember where. I thought it was here... 
    they wrote "often" for a reason: they don't want to make them look comparatively promiscuous even though they are. Still, the bottom 20% of the Africans in question aren't going to have as many partners as the top 20% here 
    File it under "true but misleading"
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