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>Through her, I know quite a lot about fertility issues. I empathize with your sister, but I think it's wrong to generalize a single data point over the popula
by whorleater 8y ago
>Through her, I know quite a lot about fertility issues.
I empathize with your sister, but I think it's wrong to generalize a single data point over the population. On a broad level, birth rates in the US from 25-29 are at 104.3, whereas 30-34 is at 101.5[1]. This is a change, but far less in comparison to the dropoff at 35-39, where birth rates fall off a cliff to 51.8.
If we take the article's premise at face value (college educated women in current times typically give birth at ~30 years old, vs non-college educated women at ~23), it would appear that the birth rate differences are negligible.
[1]: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/NCHS-Birth-Rates-for-Females-by-Age-Group-United-S/yt7u-eiyg https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/NCHS-Birth-Rates-for-Females-by-Ag...
- magic_beans 8y agoAre you married? I really hope your wife never experiences fertility issues. Fertility is much more complicated than data points.
- sidr 8y agoYes, let's ignore evidence based medicine because there might be some emotions involved. Nobody is arguiung that fertility is not complicated - there are multiple factors, but if you want to look at the effect of one particular factor (age) while controlling for others, I have no idea how to do it without data.
- patrickg_zill 8y agoIt's absolutely the case that it is easier for a younger woman to get pregnant than an older one (talking about a scale of years) . Fertility doesn't decline in a linear fashion but it does decline and to my knowledge, it doesn't ever increase over time. I think you need to reexamine what the stats you are quoting are really about.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoI think it could increase, if someone gave up smoking, drinking, started eating non-junk and sleeping. Haven’t looked at the science tho.