There were many famous explorers and worldly leaders/intellectuals throughout history.

As others have said, if you want to relax, it makes sense to start close to home. If you want to scratch that ancestral itch to explore then go travel.

If you take a statistical approach to describing phenomena, then the parent’s point stands, despite the outliers you mention.

That's a hell of a way to say it wasn't as common back then.

Thanks!

I think distinguishing between statistical and absolute statements is important. It’s common for people to point to exceptions or outliers as a demonstration that a given statement is false, when the statement in question is statistical in nature, rather than an absolute.

It often leads to misrepresentation and people talking past each other. For instance, it plays a pretty strong role in ongoing disagreements about gender roles, gender identity, etc.

Hah. So many arguments or debates have broken down to nonsense because of the pedantic tendency to call out someone’s statement that obviously wasn’t meant as an absolute but didn’t specifically say statistically likely or unlikely.

I mean that you should say things more simply in less words. I don't mean to be rude, just an honest critique, but you give the impression of trying too hard.