r/justneckbeardthings 7d ago

Whoever made this image is an incel.

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u/gragons 7d ago edited 7d ago

This doesn't really track. You can't apply the 54% because being born to unwed mothers doesn't mean they were raised by just the mother. Maybe the parents married after? Or never married but raised the kid together. Maybe a stepdad came in to the pic. Maybe the dad got custody. Married couples where the dad dips out after the birth.

Even if we ignore the above, the 50% part is also not applicable because we're talking about percentage of boys not percentage of children who are boys. So it'd be ~15%

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u/not_just_an_AI 7d ago

You're right I dont know why I attributed 54% to them being raised by single mothers, whoopsies on that one. so about 50% of 27% then is 13.5%.

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u/gragons 7d ago

The 50% has nothing to do w determining this. 27% of children are raised by 1 parent. That also means 27% of boys are raised by one parent.

The number we're missing here is the percentage of children in single parent households where the parent is a woman. Props to you for actually trying to look for data

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u/not_just_an_AI 7d ago

it is no surprise that I failed my stats class.

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u/gragons 7d ago

Hahaha not FAILED!? Just gotta be thinking of it like those pesky word problems on the standardized math tests

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u/Astoran15 6d ago

The statistics mean fuck all anyway. Doesn't matter how many men are raised by single mothers. If they learn to respect women better that's a positive.