Innumeracy: New York Times Edition

Steven Pinker:

The innumeracy of narrative journalism: Long NYT essay on the fertility decline blames it on uncertainty due to rises in mortality, inequality, unemployment, work vulnerability, poverty, etc., without citing a single datum on how any of these have changed over time, nor even the simplest correlations with fertility. | Why So Few Babies? We Might Have Overlooked the Biggest Reason of All.

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Choose life.


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