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by michtzik 385 days ago
> What part of 1/6 the population don't you understand? Is this ignorance willful?

The 1/6 number is made up. Here's an example source: https://www.who.int/news/item/04-04-2023-1-in-6-people-globa...

The first red flag is they use the Newspeak "experience infertility".

If you look at the data sources, they're calling women (and men) with children "infertile": https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/key_statistics/i-keystat.htm

Obviously there's a sense in which a woman who's had children and now can't is "infertile" (though FAR more than one-sixth of women experience menopause). But it's not the sense being used by you and your parent commenter in this thread.
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timschmidt 385 days ago
> The first red flag is they use the Newspeak "experience infertility".

It's this very new language from approximately the 17th century. And if you think real hard, you might find that you're a person who's experienced things too. Wow.

> If you look at the data sources, they're calling women (and men) with children "infertile"

The phrase that particular source uses is "impaired fecundity" which makes perfect sense. No clue what you're on about. If someone is born with two legs and through some "experience" loses one, we might refer to that person as having "impaired mobility". Crazy.

What causes you to post such insanity? Isn't it embarrassing?

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michtzik 385 days ago
The page I linked to has a top-level section called "Infertility". It has a table with a column called "1 or more births". The data in the table say that a positive proportion of those women are infertile.

As I said the first time, there's a sense in which such a woman can be infertile and it is NOT the sense your parent commenter means.

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timschmidt 385 days ago
> As I said the first time, there's a sense in which such a woman can be infertile and it is NOT the sense your parent commenter means.

I understand you feel that way. Perhaps you are just a person who is experiencing dissatisfaction.

The research seems clear and sensible to me. And wholly relevant to OP. You may want to mail your criticism to the authors.

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