{"id":25104,"date":"2019-12-15T12:35:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T17:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=25104"},"modified":"2019-11-28T10:25:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T15:25:38","slug":"air-pollution-masks-prove-that-women-are-more-prudent-than-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/15\/air-pollution-masks-prove-that-women-are-more-prudent-than-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Air pollution masks prove that women are more prudent than men?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As previously discussed here, air pollution in China, though it is being cleaned up gradually, is the one problem there that U.S. media is not exaggerating (see below for a good one, though!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anecdotally, it was women aged 20-40 who were most likely to be protecting themselves with a mask. Although helicopter parenting is no doubt common in Shanghai, it was uncommon to see children wearing masks. It was much more common to see a mother wearing a mask while the precious toddler inhaled filth than vice versa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As only two out of 50+ gender IDs are recognized in China, I think I can safely refer to &#8220;men&#8221; versus &#8220;women&#8221; in this context. Based on observed mask-wearing behavior, I wonder if it would be possible to quantify, via a careful survey, the extent to which humans with one gender ID are simply more prudent than humans with a different gender ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/01\/17\/world\/asia\/china-population-crisis.html\">&#8220;China\u2019s Looming Crisis:A Shrinking Population&#8221;<\/a> (nytimes) is my favorite example of U.S. media exaggerating a Chinese problem. The country actually has a lower median age right now than the U.S. You don&#8217;t have to be on the ground in China for more than 10 minutes to know that the country does not need a larger population. (The article falsely cites Japan as a country that has suffered from stable population; in fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/2016\/08\/29\/japan-versus-the-united-states-in-per-capita-gdp\/\">per capita GDP growth in Japan is not that different from what we have here in the U.S.<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As previously discussed here, air pollution in China, though it is being cleaned up gradually, is the one problem there that U.S. media is not exaggerating (see below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-gender-studies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Air pollution masks prove that women are more prudent than men? 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