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Correlation != Causation If you keep humans as sex slaves obviously there will be more kids. With education, women can more realistically assess costs and ris
by bflesch 1y ago
Correlation != Causation
If you keep humans as sex slaves obviously there will be more kids.
With education, women can more realistically assess costs and risks of children, and will hesistate to have children until these risks are addressed (housing, childcare, income, opportunity costs, stable partner).
- nlitened 1y ago> Correlation != Causation I agree 100%, and I also like to frame it more productively: strongly correlated A and B mean: 1. either B is caused by A, 2. or A is caused by B, 3. or both A and B are caused by some other common thing C. ↑ this gives more food for thought. > With education, women can more realistically assess costs and risks of children I don't remember any of my mostly-technical university's classes touching these topics at all. What kind of education are you talking about, and what does it teach?
- bflesch 1y agoEdit: I missed part of your sentence, but will keep my reply You're missing option (4) which is A is caused by C and B is caused by D but C and D are different things..
- cubefox 1y agoIt's the opposite. The more women earn and the higher their career prospects, the higher the opportunity cost of becoming a mother: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost Which explains why fertility is inversely correlated with educational attainment.
- missedthecue 1y agoYou just described the way that education causes TFRs to drop, while saying it's not causal.