There seems to be a boost in children among the richest.
I thought the higher death rate of men would show up in the data.
It should be noted that human beings are an unusually infertile species.
I thought the higher death rate of men would show up in the data.
Where? these are just percentages.
One of the deleted comments pointed out that married men live longer and that the numbers of old parents are really only old surviving parents. So if you took death into account, the gap would widen. I think this effect is small, though, since "old" is defined as 45+, a wide range.
I love seeing counter-evidence for everything. I estimate that while most of my beliefs are true (otherwise I wouldn't believe them in the first place), a small percentage is almost certainly completely false - and I don't really have any reliable way of telling the two apart.
Indiscriminatingly looking for counter-evidence for all of them can be very rewarding - the ones that are true are much more likely to sustain the assault of it than the ones that aren't. Yes, I might ignore counter-evidence of something that's false, or accept it for something that's true, ending up worse off, but it seems plausible that on average it should improve quality of my beliefs.
For example some of the standard beliefs about human sociobiology that seemed to be extremely widely held here are:
Charting Parenthood: Statistical Portrait of Fathers and Mothers in America disagrees with them.
These are not direct tests of sociobiological claims, so what we have is not exactly what we would like to, but I find them to be quite convincing counter-evidence. My belief in these sociobiological claims is definitely lower than before, at least as far as they concern modern world, even though I can imagine more focused studies changing my mind back.
More counter-evidence for things we commonly believe here, sociobiological or otherwise, welcomed in comments.