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From: JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET (Josh Hayes)
Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio
Subject: Re: Sex ratio, Chinese village
Message-ID: <90346.092642JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: 12 Dec 90 14:26:42 GMT
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I understand (read: I heard somewhere) that infanticide is a serious
problem in rural China, but it works against the observed skew. The
story goes that families of low social class do away with daughters
because they're useless. One would expect then to see a male/female
ration somewhat greater than unity; the root article for this thread
claimed the opposite (about 55% female?).
 
But all this is so much whistling in the wind without real evidence
on a) the observed sex ratios, and b) the social milieu in which the
purported infanticide takes place. Numbers, Spock, I need numbers!
 
Cheers,
 
Josh Hayes, Zoology, Miami U, Oxford OH 45056 USA
jahayes@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu, or  @miamiu.bitnet