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Sex may be a more useful explanatory variable than gender identity for predicting the performance of athletes in mass-participation races, a new paper has found. Study shows sex could be…
3% mortgage rates were a very unusual market in recent years. For much of the past 40+ years, interest rates were 7% or greater.
Everything is awful, say the doomers. Doomerism takes hold and no one wants to have families, to work, or make the world a better place. A self fulfilling game.
The young worker population peaked in 2000.
Study finds Gen Z has a poor ability to evaluate risks in life, and views everything as on or off, with no in between level. Hence, they are anxiety ridden.
Populations continue to see declines throughout much of the world India's fertility rate is now thought to be as low as 1.6 to 1.7.
North Korea seeks more births as fertility rate is below population replacement level. And they don't have much inbound immigration!
Oregon State economists now using "zero population growth" scenarios for the state's economic planning. The fertility rate is 1.39 and outbound migratioin has recently been high.
South Korea's fertility rate is 1.075. The number of students entering elementary school is in sharp decline.
55% of companies eliminated a 4-year degree requirement in 2023 for some jobs, and 45% will eliminate it in 2024.