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What's your gender? || If you could make it 2% more likely that all new babies would be born female instead of male, thus slightly shifting the gender ratio for future generations, would you do it?

Male | Yes
35.6%
Male | No
51.7%
Female | Yes
4.3%
Female | No
8.4%

1,895 votesFinal results

5:33 PM · May 3, 2018

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Seems like women are more in favour of this, why?

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If Wikipedia is correct the 2% raise still wouldn’t balance the sex ratio. I would raise the percentage of females to males. If I could, I’d prefer to do it in regions where the sex ratio is skewed with more males.

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Daniel McKendrick

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Don’t most countries have more females than males? I was under the assumption that Outliers like China and India were the reason for the worldwide gender disparity.

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Why is that sad?

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@lordcataplanga

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I don't get it. Presumably some males voted yes because it reduces competition for mates and they are selfish. But if the gender ratio shifts for future generations then only men in the future will benefit, so there would be no selfish benefit.

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I don't see a benefit.

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