Hi everybody this is Scott Sad I'm a bit late to this party but I wanted to briefly

wait in on the Lawrence Fox ever Evans debacle that took place at Great Britain News.

So let me just summarize at least what I know of the story and then maybe offer some comments and thoughts.

So Ava Evans is someone whom I didn't know until this story broke, she's apparently a staunch feminist

who's often made comments that are detrimental or derogatory toward men in general.

And she had appeared last Monday, I think, on a show where they were discussing suicide and she seemed to be quite

dismissive of the idea that given that men there are different estimates but the global

male to female suicide ratio is 3 to 1 for men,

meaning men on average commit about three times or succumb to suicide three times more than women.

Now to give you a sense of how powerful that effect is, when you're talking in science

about an odds ratio, if you say that giving a placebo pill versus an actual pill

resulted in a 1.2 odds ratio, like the effect is that that means 1 to 1.2 meaning it's 20% more effective.

So 1 to 1.2 this is 1 to 3 so it's a massive effect that you seldom see and so men are

committing suicide at an average rate of three times higher than women globally.

Now I published a paper back, let me just read it for you.

I published a paper in a medical journal.

The journal is called Medical Hypophases 2007, volume 68, page 692 to 696, I will put the link to the paper that of my paper it was a

paper looking at some evolutionarily relevant metrics that might explain why around the world the male to female suicide ratio might be different.

In some countries it might be 6 to 1,

and some countries it might be 2.3 to 1.

And I was arguing that an evolutionary relevant metric

that relates to social status is going to be uniquely

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