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I assume you're being facetious because assume you have a population of 100 men and 100 women.

Posted by Roger Morbid (aka RogerMore) Oct 30 '08, 14:29

And for argument's sake, we'll assume that everyone is straight and paired up, but that people can be unfaithful to their partners.

100 men + 100 women = maximum of 100 babies that year.

Now if we remove one man from the population we get 99 men and 100 women. The maximum number of babies that can be born is still 100.

Keep going - 98 men, 97, 96, 95... the maximum number of babies that can be born remains 100.

Now if we go back to step one and remove a women from the population, we get 100 men and 99 women. The maximum number of babies that can be born is 99.

Keep going again - 98 women, 97, 96... the maximum number of babies that can be born gets smaller.

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This is assuming that people *are* unfaithful to their partners. - Dr.Vermin, being obnoxious Oct 30, 14:38 4
- Which is a pretty reasonable assumption. And you only need a small percentage of males that cheat to achieve the same result. - Roger Morbid Oct 30, 14:52 3
  - Except we're talking about men being gay, not leaving the population. Or are you arguing that gay men should leave the population? You dirty bigot! -- nm - Dr.Vermin, being obnoxious Oct 30, 14:58 2
    - Heh - I said at the beginning that we'll assume all men in the model are straight. - Roger Morbid Oct 30, 15:03
    - I'm now arguing that you should leave the population. With prejudice. (nm) - musubi Oct 30, 15:01
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- Oh yes - but loosi's point was that the number of women relative to men is a far stronger indicator than the opposite way around. - Roger Morbid Oct 30, 14:41 5
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  - Not being the "strongest indicator" doesn't necessarily drain ALL validity of my theory, dammit. - Dr.Vermin, being obnoxious Oct 30, 14:46 3
    - Homosexuality isn't exactly encouraged and embraced in countries with high birth rates. -- nm - Roger Morbid Oct 30, 14:54 2
      - Exactly!!! -- nm - Dr.Vermin, rests case Oct 30, 14:55 1
        
        But aren't places with high birth rates where you would expect there to be some sort of insidious population control? -- nm - Roger Morbid Oct 30, 14:58

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