Cyan comments on Fight Zero-Sum Bias - Less Wrong

25 Post author: multifoliaterose 18 July 2010 05:57AM

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Comment author: Cyan 18 July 2010 05:28:21PM *  0 points [-]

Does that statistic (in so far as you remember) include males who died before growing old enough to implement a reproductive strategy?

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Comment author: Cyan 18 July 2010 06:28:48PM *  0 points [-]

That's pretty suggestive, but male infants and children are less robust that females, so it's not conclusive (to me, anyway, because my background knowledge isn't good enough for even order-of-magnitude estimates of the numbers involved).