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You gotta be kidding me, I wrote a whole long response and the damn website broke when I submitted it. All that work lost. What a piece of shit website.
Suffice to say, no I'm not wrong about statistics from 20 years ago. Educational attainment's impact on fertility rates has been long studied and understood. Twenty years ago isn't that long ago for statistics, you wouldn't expect to see a radical difference in something like the median age of a woman's first birth. MAYBE in 2000 the median age for a woman with a graduate degree would be 28 instead of 30, but that's about it. I had all the statistics pulled up, but I'm not going to rewrite my original long message. But these trends are seen in every country and culture, it's the number 1 most telling factor when predicting a woman's fertility rate.
The point I was trying to make in my lost post is that this is something I'm sure L&P was aware of. It would have cost him nothing to simply make Sophia a couple years older and it would have resolved some internal inconsistencies. It's very frustrating for me that he couldn't accept that a 45 year old woman could be sexually desirable, so instead he asks us to do mental gymnastics to accept her age.
You gotta be kidding me, I wrote a whole long response and the damn website broke when I submitted it. All that work lost. What a piece of shit website.
Suffice to say, no I'm not wrong about statistics from 20 years ago. Educational attainment's impact on fertility rates has been long studied and understood. Twenty years ago isn't that long ago for statistics, you wouldn't expect to see a radical difference in something like the median age of a woman's first birth. MAYBE in 2000 the median age for a woman with a graduate degree would be 28 instead of 30, but that's about it. I had all the statistics pulled up, but I'm not going to rewrite my original long message. But these trends are seen in every country and culture, it's the number 1 most telling factor when predicting a woman's fertility rate.
The point I was trying to make in my lost post is that this is something I'm sure L&P was aware of. It would have cost him nothing to simply make Sophia a couple years older and it would have resolved some internal inconsistencies. It's very frustrating for me that he couldn't accept that a 45 year old woman could be sexually desirable, so instead he asks us to do mental gymnastics to accept her age.