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The entire comment section is full of Indian bros reflexively inventing reasons why something like this is a put on in order to make India bad. Every comment se
by weeksie 7y ago
The entire comment section is full of Indian bros reflexively inventing reasons why something like this is a put on in order to make India bad. Every comment section of any article that might put India in a bad light is. It's a particular brand of motivated reasoning, and I get it.
But yeah India is not a great place for girls and women. That's changing bit by bit in the more advanced places but it's such a vast country with so many backward regions that the laggards will come along very slowly.
- jacobush 7y agoTime for me to link here: https://caravanmagazine.in/science-technology/what-genetics-reveals-about-indian-origins https://caravanmagazine.in/science-technology/what-genetics-... "People tend to think of India, with its more than 1.3 billion people, as having a tremendously large population" and "The truth is that India is composed of a large number of small populations" (There is incredibly little marrying outside ones own group.)
- iamshs 7y agoComments are swarming with misdirection from Indians right now. Even if you cherry pick data, what even is probability of getting consecutive 216 heads on a coin toss? It is amazing that Indians here are acting as if female infanticide/foeticide is not a big menace in India.
- nerdponx 7y agoYou could probably work out on pen and paper how much foeticide would be necessary before these male birth numbers become probable.
- TeMPOraL 7y ago> Even if you cherry pick data, what even is probability of getting consecutive 216 heads on a coin toss? I think the accusation here is that what happened is someone asked a couple hundred people to do two coin tosses, then grouped together those who got both heads and called it a statistical anomaly.
- weeksie 7y agoAn accusation invented out of whole cloth.
- rlpb 7y agoI agree with your statement in general (including the distinction between backwards regions and more advanced places), but I do think that India is doing much better than other countries in the region in this regard. It's only notable because India tries, unlike other countries that don't.
- weeksie 7y agoThis is a fantastic point. Let's be real, Pakistan is hardly a paragon of virtue but you're not going to get any real reporting out of that country. The openness of Indian society relative to much of the rest of Asia is pretty amazing and doesn't often get credited well enough.