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Redditardus t1_je4u234 wrote

Reply to comment by joedog911 in Dogs must wonder why it's always winter in the fridge by pufballcat

Yeah what they need to know is "this place is too cold/hot, we need to get out of here". Can't think where dogs would need to know anything more. Most people don't need to know more either. I have no idea how refrigerators, plumbing or central heating work precisely but I can live my life mostly just normally. dogs just learn that appliances that look a certain way and are in a certain place are cold and store food.

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Lord_Sirrush t1_je4t8w6 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in We're assured that qualifications are essential, but none of the very richest people got their wealth from theirs by pufballcat

Soo engineer here. There is a good reason for that. I have met quite a few PhDs that can't make the transition from academics to work. I have probably watched 5 million dollars worth of gear get destroyed over the years due to new grad PhDs with our common sense. Some you can throw in a padded room to feed math to and get some theories that can be refined, some become real assets to your team and an over all force multiplier, others just go back to acidemia to teach new PhDs without common sense.

PhD is the shortcut to success but that doesn't mean you still don't have to walk the path. You just start one rung up the ladder and you get promoted in half the time( or meet experience requirements faster when applying for new jobs).

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BoiledLiverDefense t1_je4shv7 wrote

Reply to comment by Ras82 in We have more female than male ancestors. by Intelligent-Bottle22

Even if only one male from every generation impregnated all the women, you would still have the same number of male and female ancestors.

All your explanation shows is that the population collectively has more female ancestors than male ancestors. Each individual would still have one male and female ancestor from every generation.

Can OP elaborate on whether they meant we as in the population's collective ancestors or everyone's individual ancestors.

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Ras82 t1_je4q57q wrote

Reply to We have more female than male ancestors. by Intelligent-Bottle22

For all those that don't understand what O.P. is saying:

Historically, women where twice as likely to have kids a men (because one male can impregnate multiple women). So out of 1,000,000 people, 400,000 women would be mothers while only 200,000 men where fathers.

So as a society (not indiviudals) we have twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors. You are more likely to share a male ancestor than a female.

Just take Genghis Khan as an extreme example.

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