Timeline for What would society be like if the human sex ratio was 3:1 of males:females?
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| Dec 10, 2018 at 18:12 | comment | added | Beefster | @PaulChernoch That's certainly plausible, but I'm reluctant to accept anecdotal evidence. I will assume the null hypothesis until proven otherwise. | |
| Dec 10, 2018 at 17:55 | comment | added | Paul Chernoch | @Beefster - I agree that there are likely multiple factors. Being more violent or criminal will certainly scare off women. However, as someone who has been married for over twenty years, I know from firsthand experience that marriage changes you. It has certainly made me take more time to care for people other than myself out of necessity. It has also caused me to abandon hobbies and pursuits that I would otherwise have engaged in. | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 23:30 | comment | added | Beefster | @PaulChernoch You're conflating correlation with causation. That could also be explained by less violent people being more inclined to get married or some third variable that predicts both nonviolence and marriage. | |
| Jun 15, 2017 at 11:30 | comment | added | insanity | @dsollen Boy, you're in for a surprise if you ever went to parts of India where the sex ratio is ~800:1000 | |
| Oct 14, 2016 at 18:13 | comment | added | Paul Chernoch | See healthymarriageinfo.org/for-the-media/news/news-detail/… which comments on a study about how married people commit fewer crimes, which is an indication of becoming "civilized". | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 23:10 | comment | added | dsollen | Likewise wars to capture women wouldn't happen unless rape of women were the standard of an entire civilization, and that degree of rape doesn't happen in large organized social groups with strong rule of law (because a man doesn't want his daughter raped and so passes laws to protect her, and because rape-prone species won't evolve human intellect or societies!), and such countries usually aren't organized enough for large scale war. Last bullet point is semi-true, but not due to predatory men. Realistically men would evolve to fight other men for mates, not rape. | |
| Sep 29, 2016 at 23:03 | comment | added | dsollen | I'm sorry, I can't agree with this, it feels like it's applying a superficial view of gender roles/stereotypes of today only, and is not accurate to changes. First I have seen no proof that having a family has a significant impact on ones tendency to crime or violence. Second sex slavery wouldn't happen once women were so scarce because men would be competing over the females, not conspiring to share them, kidnappings could go up, but not by much, this is controlled by culture and generally those that rape in a culture are just as prone to do it if they have a wife as if they don't. | |
| Apr 7, 2015 at 20:55 | history | answered | Paul Chernoch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |