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Average pregnancy is 9 months long. "Limited divisibility of tasks. Adding more people to a highly divisible task such as reaping a field by hand decreases the
by dexwiz 10y ago
Average pregnancy is 9 months long.
"Limited divisibility of tasks. Adding more people to a highly divisible task such as reaping a field by hand decreases the overall task duration (up to the point where additional workers get in each others way). Some tasks are less divisible; Brooks points out that while it takes one woman nine months to make one baby, "nine women can't make a baby in one month"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%E2%80%99_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%E2%80%99_law
- SideburnsOfDoom 10y agoAverage pregnancy may be 9 months long, but that's not even the right metric: the cycle time from one successful birth to the next is longer than that.
- lostlogin 10y agoOut of every nine women, less than 9 are able to have children once age and various conditions, medical history, choices etc come into play. I think I was over thinking the scenario...