[ExI] Demography (was: tech influence)

Tara Maya tara at taramayastales.com
Mon Feb 10 01:04:18 UTC 2014



On Feb 9, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> What about those natural experiment findings from India and Brazil showing rapid culturally induced shifts in fertility due to television? Are soap opera characters vivid enough to act as counterparts to grandmothers in setting expectations?

Yes, I would think so. It's not that women believe the characters are real, but that they believe the characters model the lifestyle and life history of real upper middle class women whom they wish to emulate.

And of course, television in and of itself is also a form of birth control.  ;)

Tara Maya
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