‘No girls born’ for past three months in area of India covering 132 villages

Post by Nasrudith » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 1:00 PM UTC

novok wrote: post #24

JohnBooty wrote: post #8

I can only imagine that there are a number of secondary effects of creating a skewed male/female ratio. Simply put, there are not enough women to go around. I suspect this leads to lots of overly fierce competition for women. Women treated more as precious commodities and less as human beings. Men lacking experience dealing with women. A certain percentage of men being unhappy much of the time because finding a mate…

Looking at China, I think it's the opposite actually? By being the rare commodity, you get to dictate terms and be picky with a lot to choose from.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 1:00 PM UTC

maratumba wrote: post #40

distant_hat wrote: post #14

Its a clickbait headline. Not saying that there isn't an issue with female foeticide in India but this study isn't it. There are nearly 700 villages in the district, and most of them are small enough to have Out of all those villages they just picked the ones which happened to have had no females. It is no coincidence, whoever did the study clearly knew what they were doing and cherry picked the data to sensationaliz…

Haven't actually read the study but not sure I understand your comment. Even if every village has only one birth, the probability of having no girls at random is 1/(2 700) which seems practically impossible. Perhaps there is something else that made you response critically of their methods?

Post by jacobush » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 1:04 PM UTC

weeksie wrote: post #58

simonh wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you read the study? Are you qualified to evaluate the statistical methodology and have you done such an analysis? If so fine, but otherwise neither you nor I are qualified to make a statement like that. There does seem to be something going on. According to Wikipedia only 43% of the population of the region are female. If 63 million women are statistically missing from the Indian population, I think it's pretty…

The entire comment section is full of Indian bros reflexively inventing reasons why something like this is a put on in order to make India bad. Every comment section of any article that might put India in a bad light is. It's a particular brand of motivated reasoning, and I get it. But yeah India is not a great place for girls and women. That's changing bit by bit in the more advanced places but it's such a vast coun…

Post by iamshs » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 1:08 PM UTC

weeksie wrote: post #58

simonh wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you read the study? Are you qualified to evaluate the statistical methodology and have you done such an analysis? If so fine, but otherwise neither you nor I are qualified to make a statement like that. There does seem to be something going on. According to Wikipedia only 43% of the population of the region are female. If 63 million women are statistically missing from the Indian population, I think it's pretty…

The entire comment section is full of Indian bros reflexively inventing reasons why something like this is a put on in order to make India bad. Every comment section of any article that might put India in a bad light is. It's a particular brand of motivated reasoning, and I get it. But yeah India is not a great place for girls and women. That's changing bit by bit in the more advanced places but it's such a vast coun…

Post by iamshs » Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 1:17 PM UTC

seszett wrote: post #46

maratumba wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haven't actually read the study but not sure I understand your comment. Even if every village has only one birth, the probability of having no girls at random is 1/(2 700) which seems practically impossible. Perhaps there is something else that made you response critically of their methods?

Over 700 villages, all with a birth rate of about two births per 3 months, there might very well be 132 villages with no girls born, 140 villages with no boys born, and 428 villages with one boy and one girl born. It wouldn't be alarming at all. But if these villages represent a contiguous area, then it is alarming. The article doesn't really give enough information to say anything about this really.