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Posted to XX Factor by Independence on August 11, 2008
Neanderthals and gender roles
The most interesting part of the whole book is the theory on the reason why Neanderthals died out, losing competition to Homo sapiens. Neanderthals did not have division of labor, while Homo sapiens did. And the division of labor here specifically means division of labor between MEN and WOMEN. Division of labor, come to think of it, is such a ...
Posted to The Undercover Economist by sorenlerby on February 20, 2008
proportion
This finding is news to me, and I wonder if the actual data support the researchers' conclusion. People generally have a preferred finding already in mind when when they set out to do an experiment, and are never entirely unbiased about their conclusions. They might well have set out to show that coffee shops hold women customers up ...
Posted to The Undercover Economist by thimk on November 13, 2007