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New Evidence Suggest Polygyny Can Be Beneficial - Black Aeronaut - 10-17-2019
Given the controversial nature of the topic, I figured I should put this in here.
https://medium.com/@Capioca/polygynous-marriage-can-benefit-women-and-children-93e9d172d68c
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/10/21/1507151112
The short and sweet of it is that other factors such as rainfall amounts have actually been skewing results. Which really strikes me as idiotic to not take the general wealth and food production in the region into account. An analogy to this would be performing a study of water quality in Mexico and flat-out concluding that it's terrible all around without taking into account the economic wealth in each region. Or, for a closer fit, comparing the birthrates of whales in the Pacific vs that of the Atlantic without taking into account the availability of food.
RE: New Evidence Suggest Polygyny Can Be Beneficial - Matrix Dragon - 10-17-2019
It's a fine example of how cultural bias skews results, if we're being honest.
RE: New Evidence Suggest Polygyny Can Be Beneficial - Labster - 10-17-2019
Can I have an animu harem? Let's see, I pick Tomo and Yomi obviously, plus Kikyou from Inuyasha. Oh and Kagura of the Wind too, renowned for her nice feet. Let's see, Wakaba Shinohara, Yoruichi (if I'm not allergic to her), Grandis Granva, and Sumire Kanzaki.
Or were we somehow expecting to have a serious discussion in here.
Also controlling for confounders is really hard in social science, people keep trying to show individuality. Bias is more of a thing that causes you to stop thinking because results match your expectations, rather than intentionally producing wrong results. Which is why we do replication studies.
RE: New Evidence Suggest Polygyny Can Be Beneficial - LulzKiller - 10-19-2019
The first hurdle is getting one, and then two
RE: New Evidence Suggest Polygyny Can Be Beneficial - classicdrogn - 10-19-2019
I think the issue is more having everyone get along, when the increase in difficulty is asymptotic with the number of people involved. Whether it's true or not, the Chinese (some version anyway) ideogram for "trouble" is supposedly two "woman" under a single roof after all...
RE: New Evidence Suggest Polygyny Can Be Beneficial - LulzKiller - 10-19-2019
I guess many women want to be the "main" one in such an arrangement.
RE: New Evidence Suggest Polygyny Can Be Beneficial - Rajvik - 10-20-2019
that seems to be the usual issue, that and "petty" jealousy at not getting enough attention as another.
RE: New Evidence Suggest Polygyny Can Be Beneficial - Black Aeronaut - 10-20-2019
There's a reason why bisexual polyamorous partners are so sought after that they're called "Unicorns". It's because it's hard to feel left out when you can just crash the party whenever you want.