tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post3112816872341552522..comments2024-03-22T15:55:34.030-04:00Comments on Evo and Proud: When is the tipping point?Peter Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04303172060029254340noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-11089241400087564952014-04-08T00:50:05.863-04:002014-04-08T00:50:05.863-04:00I think more updates and will be returning. I have...I think more updates and will be returning. I have filtered for qualified edifying substance of this calibre all through the past various hours. Judi Onlinehttp://judia.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-52995570056912988282010-02-24T12:15:10.344-05:002010-02-24T12:15:10.344-05:00It's always the shy men who end up as excess m...It's always the shy men who end up as excess males.<br /><br /><br />"It depends on the social environment. What works in one environment does not in another"<br /><br /> I can't think of any social environment where there is a reproductive fitness pay off to being shy so why are a significant percentage of men shy. Shyness in an adult male sounds like a touch of a schizophrenia spectrum disorder to me.Todnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-53522476018480856842010-02-22T09:18:13.294-05:002010-02-22T09:18:13.294-05:00I don't know but to me, when you mix that fact...I don't know but to me, when you mix that fact with the high unemployment rate (in the US, there is supposedly more women than men at work), you've got an explosive mix.<br />It seems that every single occidental value is turned upside down to the exclusive profit, once again, of a global society with non-occidental values. <br />Crime will rise, suicide will rise, depression will rise, voting numbers during elections will decrease, education will decrease and so on.<br />So my question is simple:<br />'Who' can be happy with that ?Ben10noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-30413215395684936042010-02-21T18:47:22.276-05:002010-02-21T18:47:22.276-05:00The sex ratio in former USSR countries has nothing...The sex ratio in former USSR countries has nothing to do with a magical ability for people to breed more daughters if they're poor, and everything to do with the fact that many of their men die young. <br /><br />Poor countries have more daughters? Like in China? India? Every single nation in the world gives birth to more boys than girls. African peoples sex ratio at birth is slightly closer to 1:1 than the world average, which is probably where that voodoo magic of poverty caused sex selection comes from.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-85336490993007599892010-02-20T21:48:52.436-05:002010-02-20T21:48:52.436-05:00To add to the previous post, this general rule of ...To add to the previous post, this general rule of "wealthy locales supply the males, poor locales supply the females" can also be extended to countries as a whole.<br /><br />On a global level, since the US and Canada are wealthier and more stable than, say, Russia and Thailand, it makes sense that the American and Canadian males would have more difficulty dating than the males in Russia and Thailand, since there are fewer females in the former countries and a lot more in the latter.Eugenenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-28690218346426359222010-02-20T21:25:26.379-05:002010-02-20T21:25:26.379-05:00At least the US isn't China or India, where th...At least the US isn't China or India, where there are literally millions of doomed bachelors. Even Canada's sex ratio is worse (higher) than the US one.<br /><br />The difficulty of finding women in the wealthy Western countries is nothing new. It can be done, but requires much more effort than in other parts of the world, most notably Russia, as well as the former Baltic Republics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), where it really seems as though women are everywhere. Research shows that these "former-USSR" geographic regions have a much lower sex ratio than the West. I'll touch on the question of why later on.<br /><br />For this reason, many Western men (including the Brits mentioned in the article) have "gone East" in search of wives.<br /><br />From a man's point of view, the availability of single women has a lot to do with population size in the *generation following his*. If a man was born prior to a baby boom, he's going to have a lot of choice in potential brides, because there are large numbers of younger women for him (and younger women tend to marry older men). <br /><br />However, if the population starts to shrink shortly after the man's birth, his options will be far more limited when he reaches adulthood. The number of younger women for him will be small because the next generation is smaller, and also all the males in his own (larger-sized) generation are on the hunt as well for the few available young females.<br /><br />There is a theory that, apart from being fit and in shape, there's little a man can do with respect to succeeding with women if he was born at an "unlucky time" i.e. prior to a shrinkage in the population. Conversely, "pre-Baby Boom" men enjoy a variety of choices.<br /><br />Let's get back to the question of why wealthier countries (e.g. the West) seem to have a lot more men than women. The issue has to do with the theory of sex allocation. Studies show that wealthier couples produce more sons than daughters (reference: "Sperm Wars" by Robin Baker), and poorer couples produce more daughters than sons. Since wealth can make males much more competitive, it's a good idea for wealthy parents to "bet on sons" -- in other words, subconsciously generate more male children. Sons can produce a lot of children, especially wealthy competitive sons. This is an evolved biological mechanism. If the parents are poor, however, it's better to produce a daughter: wealth is not in any way a factor in a girl's attractiveness, rather her fertility is. All young girls are attractive and fertile and can be married off, so daughters are a safer "bet" in places that tend to be poor or unstable. Unfortunately, daughters will never produce as many children as sons could *in theory* (they're limited to only a few). However, if the sons are not competitive, they are a bad option, and it's much better to go for a daughter.<br /><br />So we shouldn't be surprised to find that poor countries and regions produce a lot of women. Suffice to say, if you're looking for a girlfriend, Las Vegas or Silicone Valley CA ain't the place to be. Your odds would be much better in a poorer location, such as a small village in South Carolina or maybe New Orleans LA. By the way, that's exactly what the map shows.Eugenenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-55649325944382511642010-02-20T17:36:27.351-05:002010-02-20T17:36:27.351-05:00Sorry, my previous comment was rather foolish.
It...Sorry, my previous comment was rather foolish.<br /><br />It's a <i>deficit</i> of AA and H men and an excess of AA and H women that improves the ratio of single males to single females for men wishing to marry.<br /><br />My objection is basically the same however, I still have trouble with the idea of AA women being fully competitive in the wider marriage market on close to equal terms with the average woman. I know you disagree from <a rel="nofollow">The new marriage market and the future</a>. <br /><br />If the relevant men understood at the outset the choice was between that and never marrying they would not be deciding to remain single. However most men are going to take a very long time to come to that conclusion; by the time they do they will be into late middle age and not so appalled by the idea of never marrying.Todnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-61634613466196342382010-02-19T22:28:07.561-05:002010-02-19T22:28:07.561-05:00Indeed if you load a 2000 census map of gender rat...Indeed if you load a 2000 census map of gender ratio, or perhaps ratio of singles in the young adult age group, within cities you'll notice a significant surplus of women in the ghettos of cities and a surplus of men everywhere else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-63118934811603638362010-02-19T14:09:42.601-05:002010-02-19T14:09:42.601-05:00" the African American and Hispanic American ..." the African American and Hispanic American populations. African Americans in particular have a low sex ratio at birth and relatively high male mortality in young age brackets."<br /><br />African American and Hispanic American men would be dis proportionally of <i>low</i> SES.<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/daniel.nettle/pollet%20and%20nettle%20biology%20letters.pdf" rel="nofollow">IN</a> a balanced state, the model predicts that 56% of low SES men would be married once, whereas 60% of high SES men would. In a male-biased state, however, only 24% of low SES men would be married once, but 46% of high SES men would. Thus, with a sex ratio shift from 1 to 1.1, low SES men become 2.31 times less likely to marry, whereas<br />high SES men are 1.31 times less likely"<br /><br /> African American women do not have a glut of marriagable men so the marriagable AA men who are single are that way by choice, in relation to AA women at least.<br /><br />You seem to be presuming that the minority of 'excess' single AA men who are of marriagable status and SES are fully competitive in the wider marriage market on close to equal terms with the average man.<br /><br />I would say they have a certain drawback in the eyes of most women; one which weighs against them counting as excess men for practical purposes.Todnoreply@blogger.com