[tetrazine]

Very interesting answer from Suzanne Sadedin. Very odd that "Arush Kakkar, Founder, CorsecoTech", who appears to neither be a physician, nor a medical science expert, nor a woman, is the highest displayed answer for me, with a strained analogy relating women's bodies to software, which is based on Suzanne's answer. I don't know if this is because of user voting, his score, or the Quora algorithm. I wonder if the mysteries of this ranking system are what lies behind the Quora login wall.

[elil17]

Sadedin's post has over 20k upvotes, but that guy has 81. Definitely not because of user voting.

[nostrademons]

It's fallen to #2 now. I would bet it's recency bias; that guy is probably there from this Hacker News link, made a follow-up answer, and because Quora (like HN and many forums) tends to put new replies at the top to give them a chance & see how they do with voting, it momentarily showed up as the top answer.

[raldi]

Quite the opposite; his answer was from Jan 2015; the good answer arrived nearly two years later.

[nostrademons]

I'm not terribly familiar with Quora's UI, but it looked like that's the date that the person's author profile was last updated, not the date that they answered the question. I could be totally wrong on this though. It's not possible for the good answer to have arrived later, because the bad answer references it (unless he edited the post afterwards to refer to it, but if the date on the post is actually a last-edit date for the post, that still wouldn't make sense).

[raldi]

Oh, I think you’re right.

[Simon_says]

His answer is kinda crap, to boot. Menopause isn't triggered by the number of menstrual cycles, but by age.

[AstralStorm]

How do you know that? It is and a cop out answer because age is not a mechanism. Specifics please?

[Simon_says]

I apologize. It turns out my intuition was wrong about this. I just assumed that menopause was triggered by age, and I was going to look for evidence that age of menopause doesn't correlate with number of pregnancies, but it turns out it does! Childless women hit menopause earlier, on average. So, I guess I don't know.

[tomp]

Isn't it sexist to think that women would know more about the scientific reasons they menstruate than men? At least that's what your answer is implying...