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@loveandgarbage Yes I spotted that. Maybe she wrote something, but they (lawyers?) decided to redo in 3rd person.
@loveandgarbage Hah - interesting spot!
@MickFealty Maybe by you giving your password to a third party service that wasn't above board?
@shefaly Which bit made you cross?
Hmm. Spent a day last week writing about girls' ed in Pakistan. Why wrong to think about boy's health in Africa? Or men's health generally?
@shefaly God! Sorry. Utterly misread your tweet as "I am *not* surprised..." Thought if I'd even upset you, I must have really strayed...
My evil plot is clear now I hope - I want the world living with 2.2 kids in an endless suburb of Basingstoke (sustainably of course).
Rt @ezraklein @annielowrey "Now all #HCR needs...Senate vote, bill mash-up, House vote, Senate vote....oh sheesh." <-then start on climate
@sdmoss And family size is a predictor of education for those mothers when younger. Smaller familes = more education.
@caroldn selfish gene
@caroldn Species vs individual. No - I disagree there. Desperately hard for anything species affirming to evolve.
@leashless Cooperation bootstrapped on foundation of genetic competition. Can't have species-affirming outcomes whose logic is anti-gene.
I reckon 360k lives a year would be saved if baby African boys were as likely to survive as their sisters. (Caveat: maths needs checking!)
@leashless Sure - eukaryotic revolution bootstraps a social contract between genes on foundation of war of all against all.
@acorn But it was still important for America to stop being objectionable - fuelling dislike.
(ii) Suspect many parents judge family size by "enough boys". So African boy survival rates prob have disproportionate impact on population.
(i) Infant survival is a paradoxical determinant of family size. More kids survive = parents have fewer children (after a lag).
@caroldn "When push comes to shove, what's good for the genes determines what the future will hold." But the gene is not the species.
@caroldn Yes - which is why doing something dumbly dangerous feels so exhilaratingly life affirming.
@caroldn @leashless Risk aversion re children certainly changes over time - so it could be different for kids of different sex.
One in seven of all the world's deaths each year is an African kid under five.
These tweets about men and health have made some of you cross - but I am going to dig a deeper hole. Here goes...
I am sympathetic to @sdmoss 's idea public health shldn't focus on stopping men taking stupid risks. But cf: smoking; obesity etc.
RT @sdmoss Yes - girls survive better than boys in most places around the world, http://www.unifem.org/progres...
@leashless To be stable, cooperative strategies have to be robust to repel/overcomes selfish ones.
So boys out-survive girls by a bit in Asia (lots of kids), but girls out-survive boys by a lot in Africa (lots and lots of deaths).
@leashless @davidhodgson Cooperation - group escaping a fire. Competition - room has but one narrow doorway.
@leashless And the maths shows that cooperation emerges in bad times too - across 1st world war trenches for example.
@caroldn In dev countries, we probably want to see increasing levels of risk aversion anyway - bigger investment in smaller families.
Wonder if, globally, there are significant difference between male and female infant mortality.
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