And of course, the "look how awesome I am" answer isn't useful at all, because there are unproven assertions made to make the question tractable, and unknown realities not brought into the problem space(for example, people having genetic predispositions towards birthing sons rather than daughters, or vice versa)
That's one of my productivity secrets. Always read the top 4 answers before deciding on a course.
Answer #3 is right far too often for my liking. And sometimes answer #4 brings up corner cases the others missed.
Re:Do men or women have more brothers?
by stcredzero on Monday May 23, 2016 @04:39PM
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I think the above structure is eerily reflected in large corporations and in government. The actual work/know-how resides in tier 3 and 4, with the top two tiers actually just being better at politics and self promotion.
Glad I scrolled down far enough to find this comment
Re:Do men or women have more brothers?
by get2zpointer on Monday May 23, 2016 @05:10PM
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Why is three better? In any family with k brothers, each male will have k-1 brothers, while each female (if any exist) will have k brothers. So the number of brothers in S(x) is gender dependent, despite the the third answer's claim that it isn't.
> Why is three better?
Because you're wrong.
Absolutely. I actually upvoted #3[1] before coming here and seeing your comment.
sensible answer is 3 down with half as many upvotes.