knb comments on Some counterevidence for human sociobiology - Less Wrong

0 Post author: taw 29 August 2009 02:08AM

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Comment author: knb 29 August 2009 06:56:49AM *  5 points [-]

Richer people, especially men, are more likely to have kids, and have more kids

Is this really a widely held belief? It seems to me that the actual claim made here is simply that rich men have higher sexual market value on average.

Number of children is not a good proxy for sexual market value, especially since reproduction and sex are now only weakly related.