Wow this looks great, thanks!

I'd be interested in a citation, first thought which springs to mind is sample size and size of the bias.

Presumably it’s this study: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elissa_Cameron/publicat...

It cited 60% male to female billionaire ratio on n of 350.

But, the methodology was to use google and Wikipedia for research so a more honest claim might be “male offspring of billionaires show up in search results more often.”

I suppose that factoid wouldn’t have been paid for by the publisher though.

Thinking more about my own comment, perhaps researchers expecting to find more male offspring while googling find male offspring more often!

Worth bearing in mind that the birth ratio is generally tilted towards boys, about 52.5%

I don't disagree with most of what you say, but I do disagree with your implied conclusion.

Setting a baseline of limiting/banning provably false information is a good thing. Yes, it doesn't stop all forms manipulation of people towards any given agenda, but it certainly doesn't make it easier, and means things have to be at least slightly anchored to reality.

Just because it doesn't completely solve the problem doesn't mean it's not an improvement.

As someone who has studied biology, there are lots of edge cases where it is far from clear cut what biological gender a person is.

Even XY chromosomes aren't invariably male (they aren't even “invariably male or infertile female”, as was believed until fairly recently.)

Another example is rockets. Most fuel in rockets is used to propell the remaining fuel up the gravity well

You are not the average user: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

Although I agree that raising pension age disadvantages the poor, not for that reason. Life expectancy is not the same as age most people live to.

If you compare the percentage mortality between the ages 65-75 it's pretty equal (about 1%) both for the UK [1] and Glasgow [2]. Lower life expectancy looks to me due to much greater death rates in the 25-40 range.

Raising the pension age hurts the poor, not because the poor won't experience pension, but because they have no hope of an earlier retirement, and so you are forcing people to work when they are potentially unable to effectively do so.

[1] https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-kingdom/2019/

[2] https://www.understandingglasgow.com/indicators/population/t...

I was diagnosed with dyslexia at age of 8. At the time I couldn't spell my name with any reliability (it's not a complicated one), and I was failing primary school across all subjects. My reading level was, perhaps surprisingly, about average for my age, although I do find to this day I have to be very careful not to skip lines or misread words while reading (I usually use my finger IRL or highlight the text I read through as I go along online).

I see dyslexia now as an umbrella term for a wide class of learning related symptoms. The justification for receiving additional support and understanding as a means to reduce waste of potential. If there is such a large gap in one area of development that that it overly impacts the measurement or development of the other areas then failing to compensate for that seems negligent.

Given the choice between bored disinterest and confrontation I would say confrontation is the better tactic, at least it's memorable. Now maybe it's not the ideal method, but of the two presented here it seems the more reasonable.