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I'd want to know a lot more about overall Taiwanese demographics before I'd make a big deal out of this. 6x as fertile as the average sounds huge, until you con
by johngossman 2y ago
I'd want to know a lot more about overall Taiwanese demographics before I'd make a big deal out of this. 6x as fertile as the average sounds huge, until you consider that TSMC employees are vastly more likely to be in the child-bearing age group than the overall population (children and the elderly don't have many kids). The right comparison would be between TSMC employees and other employed people in the same age and income brackets. Could still be real, but probably not 6x.
- m463 2y agoCould be clean room air too. Or maybe you aren't allowed to smoke near a fab.
- WorkerBee28474 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Taiwan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Taiwan A third or so of the women in Taiwan are of childbearing age. If every woman at TSMC was in the same age bracket then the 6x difference would "only" be a 2x.
- roenxi 2y agoGreat time to be on alert for statistical weirdness. One that springs to mind is maybe TSMC attracts higher status men who compete more effectively for the women most likely to have children or something like that. I don't recall ever seeing a nice rundown of why birth rates have collapsed in the most abundant era of human history but I doubt it is as simple as TSMC offering childcare. People have done more with far less on the children front over history.