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Study reveals average age at conception for men vs. women over past 250k years

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Post by thaumasiotes »

smt88 wrote: post #108
thaumasiotes wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There are no modern scientists who understand evolution and think it can be "completed" or that humans have done so. There are many modern scientists who don't understand evolution.

> There are many modern scientists who don't understand evolution. A. I doubt there are many who don't understand natural selection and/or want to talk about evolution without understanding it B. I excluded those people explicitly, so what's your point?

They don't stop publishing just because they're stupid.

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hutzlibu wrote: post #148
krageon wrote: post #146

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Criticism from whom? If it's your friends, get better friends. Other than that, it might be family - which is easily explained as jealousy (any success at all tends to get that response). Am I missing some hypothetical case where someone criticises you about the age of your partner and their opinion somehow matters?

I did not ask for life advice, I was stating the fact, that nowdays age disparity seems to be frowned upon and provided a anecdotical data point.

It wasn't life advice, I was walking through my thought process towards asking why this is relevant. Which you have not addressed.

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Post by hutzlibu »

krageon wrote: post #162
hutzlibu wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did not ask for life advice, I was stating the fact, that nowdays age disparity seems to be frowned upon and provided a anecdotical data point.

It wasn't life advice, I was walking through my thought process towards asking why this is relevant. Which you have not addressed.

"why this is relevant."

Erm, because I live in this society, so the social norms of this society do affect me and well, everyone else in it. I thought that is obvious.

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Post by shepherdjerred »

GoblinSlayer wrote: post #72
shepherdjerred wrote: post #41

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I've never heard this before. Do you have a source?

I guess it was derived from the old (or layman?) definition of evolution as survival of the fittest as in human society the unfit survive with the help of medicine, technology and charity.

Weird. I'm sure you could say any other intelligent species that helps others is no longer evolving too.

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Post by poulpy123 »

stargazer-3 wrote: post #103
poulpy123 wrote: post #91

I'm really surprised that 30-40000 years ago the average age of conception was 35 for men and 24 for women

If a woman bears many children throughout her life, you can still have a situation where the first pregnancy occurs much earlier than today's average yet the overall conception average is roughly same as nowadays.

that's a good point !

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Post by searealist »

kristopolous wrote: post #149
searealist wrote: post #55

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And yet https://imgur.com/Ijgzwsk

Those metrics are culturally specific and the dataset of okcupid is limited to people who go on okcupid and volunteer answers to such questions. It's a classic case of participation bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_bias (see "Alf Landon wins in a landslide" for the famous example). The takeaway here is that straight single middle aged men who chase after woman, are on ok cupid looking for them, and w…

Why do you mention middle aged men when that graph contained men of all ages.
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