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The Passion of the Jordan and the Wisdom of the Bret

Decoding the Gurus

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The Impact of China's One-Child Policy on Gender Ratios

This chapter discusses the one child policy in China and its impact on the gender ratio. They explain that the preference for boys in certain cultures led to a preponderance of boys in China, not due to biological reasons, but rather through mechanisms such as abortions or abandoning girls. They criticize a speaker's notion that this gender ratio is a strategy deployed by the Chinese for creating an army.

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