The introduction had one of the most hilarious passages of all time. Talking about the difficulties of Indian women, it mentioned that Indian men’s condoms malfunction more than 15% of the time. Why? According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, some 60% of Indian men have penises too small for condoms manufactured to western specs. Direct quote: “The condom is not optimized for India.”
The feminist revolution has plummeted the demand for prostitution, causing prices to be lower now than 100ish years ago when it wasn’t illegal. Men can get sex for free relatively easy now. He didn’t mention it, but I bet the preponderance of pornography has also contributed to this. Escorts however, as opposed to the street prostitutes, make great money, with many charging $300 an hour.
Another loser of the feminist revolution has been schoolchildren. The average IQ of schoolteachers plummeted between between 1960 and 1980. They used to be significantly above average IQ, with 40% of teachers being in the top 20% of IQ, but no more.
On the wage gap, gender discrimination is at most a minor contributor. There is a difference in desire between men and women. Men love money, and women love children. Women take more career interruptions and even when they’re not they work fewer hours. Particularly the wives of men who make good money cash in on their privilege of being able to stay at home.
A study using an SAT style math test to measure the difference in money motivation. When paid for each correct answer men did significantly more better than women, compared to when they were given a flat fee for doing the test.
Pregnant Muslim women participating in Ramadan causes a significant increase learning and other disabilities in their children.
Simple fixes are usually better. Seat belts cost about $30,000 per life saved in America. Airbags, by contrast, cost about 1.8 million per life saved.
This was an interesting book. Like the first one, it talked about lots of random topics, but the underlying idea is that incentives determine behavior on the aggregate. It’s section on global warming was interesting, mentioning lots of very cheap technological ideas that could solve the temperature issue, but many environmentalists hate them. Environmentalism is a religion, where technology is evil and the natural is good, so using technology to solve the problem is sacrilege.
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