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09 Mar 2020
A study in Ontario found that stressful geopolitical events like Trump's election skewed birth ratios toward females, not due to liberal choice.

This is about a study that was done specifically in Ontario, Canada, and they found that it's possible that Trump's election has thrown off normal sex ratios of newborns. There's a Wired article that explains this really well. And what it comes down to is that there's a documented relationship between stressful events and the sex ratio of babies, which it actually happened after 9-11 and the London bombings in 2005. No one knows exactly why this is the case. It's still something that science is trying to explore and understand. But there's a pattern that's being observed where highly stressful geopolitical events have a tendency to skew births to being more females. In this case, specific to Ontario, they found a ratio of 1.0217 boys born per girl born, down from the normal figure of 1.0605. This is certainly really interesting. And the more data points researchers have about this phenomenon, it gives them a better chance of figuring out what's going on. However, this is not an instance of liberals choosing not to have boys.