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Re:Sperm Count Dropping in Western World by meerab on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @12:03PM (#14857417)
If this theory was correct the males in India and China would be affected more than males in the western world.
Re:Sperm Count Dropping in Western World by djtriptych on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @12:07PM (#14857455)
Not if population density is the trigger. How could the body evolve to be aware of national boundaries?
Re:Sperm Count Dropping in Western World by maxerickson on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @12:14PM (#14857526)
North America has low population density relative to most of the world.

Probably even more so if you do some sort of aggregation of the density that people live at rather than averaging population across land area. Suburbia and such.

Re:Sperm Count Dropping in Western World by dom0 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @01:21PM (#14858170)
> North America has low population density relative to most of the world.

Well the quotient N(north america) / A(north america) is low, but this value does not have to match the average or median population density in areas around samples.

In other words, yes, America is a big country, but it's big cities are just as densely populated as big cities anywhere else.

Re:Sperm Count Dropping in Western World by maxerickson on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @01:39PM (#14858310)
Well the quotient N(north america) / A(north america) is low,

It's infuriating that you choose to reply like this without accounting for both paragraphs of my comment. I mean, I'll just let it go, but c'mon.

I would say that US cities tend to be less dense and that Americans don't tend to live in urban centers as much as people in other countries.

Re:Sperm Count Dropping in Western World by dom0 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:04PM (#14860793)
Sorry, I must have misread it. Looking at some charts, you have a point there.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/World_po... (1994)