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Women are good and average and safe (genetically speaking). Men are more distributed in the extremes: both extremely bad and extremely good. Just think of th
by Shorel 15y ago
Women are good and average and safe (genetically speaking).
Men are more distributed in the extremes: both extremely bad and extremely good.
Just think of this: Why the number of people in prison is mostly males instead of half male and half female? Should we try to 'correct' this too?
This is not a problem of society, but a consequence of different reproductive strategies.
- Mz 15y agoI don't know that there is any reason to think these social outcomes are rooted in genes. It looks to me like it's rooted in something else. Care to share where/why you got the idea that it is genetically determined? Thanks.
- barry-cotter 15y agoWhat is the maximum number of children a man can have? What is the maximum number of children a woman can have? What does this imply about the best strategy for maximising number of descendants for men and for women? Male mating strategies exhibit far higher skew than female ones. Men have higher variance than women in every trait I know of, from heighth to IQ scores to income. Men take more risks. Here's[0] where you'll find the most convenient counterarguments or pointers to same. Here's[1] the best book I've encountered on the general topic. The introductory chapter is excellent. [0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_psychology#Ethnocentrism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_psych... [1]http://books.google.com.hk/books/about/The_Handbook_of_Evolutionary_Psychology.html?id=esDW3xTKoLIC http://books.google.com.hk/books/about/The_Handbook_of_Evolu...