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>One in 7,000 people, according to his unpublished analysis
by qualeed 1y ago
>One in 7,000 people, according to his unpublished analysis
- wincy 1y agoThat’s pretty low, I’d say that’s a cultural success.
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- jvanderbot 1y agoYeah I expected 10x the rate, but sadly those are the "successful" pregnancies.
- mc32 1y agoAlso it only would be able to capture cases where reproduction is actually possible --in some cases it obviously is not possible. Another data source would be STD transmission.
- Quarrelsome 1y agothe article gives reasons why its still probably an underestimate.
- jasonfarnon 1y agothe article has a quote “That’s way, way more than I think many people would ever imagine,” but I don't have much intuition with 1/7000. The LLM tells me 1/7000 is the 6'7.5" quantile for US adult males. That doesn't sound too far off from what I would have expected of this type of incest, if I had to hazard a height quantile before reading this article. Maybe I would've gone for 6'9". If it was like 6'4", I would be seriously nauseated. I've never had a friend over 6'5" but a number < that. Which would suggest.
- doctorwho42 1y agoWouldn't that 1/7000 number just be from successful pregnancies?
- burnt-resistor 1y agoIs that before or after the invention of the automobile?
- Mistletoe 1y agoThank you, that's much better than I feared.