I think this may have to do with tropes about AI as well as gender roles. I'd be interested to see a breakdown between "Ai goes rogue" stories and more benign portrayals and whether this influences the figures.

My suspicion is that narratives built around AI being dangerous and a bad idea will overrepresent men more than positive or neutral portrayals and somewhat close this gap though not entirely. I think its difficult to draw a conclusion about women being underrepresented in a prestige field without evaluating how that field is being portrayed.

"If it goes wrong men did it and if it goes right women did 50% of the work" isnt quite the misogynistic portrayal some might draw from these findings. I think more analysis is necessary to draw conclusions about this data given the absolute glut of "AI bad" stories.

Vitamin deficiency is a big one.

"Vitamin D deficiency may accelerate age-related cognitive decline."

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1404477111#:~:text=Vitamin%20D%20is%20an%20important,accelerate%20age%2Drelated%20cognitive%20decline.

"Some people may need more sun exposure because they have darker skin, which takes longer to generate vitamin D."

https://lloydspharmacy.com/blogs/vitamins-and-supplement-advice/vitamin-d-for-skin-types-and-ages#:~:text=Some%20people%20may%20need%20more,is%20more%20sensitive%20to%20burning.

We already know vitamin D deficiency causes exactly this health outcome. To not control for it before declaring "Racism did it" is ridiculous.

Different skin colors didn't arise for no reason. Europeans turned white and East Asians lighter skinned because it's best suited to the environment of the northern hemisphere and the ones who didn't died early and were less fit for survival and so on.

That didn't magically stop being true when we decided the races were equal.

Black people need vitamin D supplements or to ensure their diet has steady sources of it, or to go sunbathing a few times a year, or they're going to end up with a deficiency which causes all kinds of issues including faster brain aging and cognitive decline. That is, unless they live in a sunny clime with low cloud coverage.

This study is like looking at higher skin cancer rates for white people living in africa than black people, and going "It's racism doing it.".

Oh really now. Is it.

This makes perfect sense to me as a Welsh person. Lower income areas are under constant threat of higher income areas up and deciding to purchase most of the housing in an area and colonize it, often not even living in the housing for most of the year, or even worse, actually doing so and forming gated colonial communities that have bought all the desirable land and property in your country.

Wales cannot control its border with England because they're the same country, supposedly.

This led to welsh terrorist movements that engaged in arson attacks on English holiday homes. The problem recently flared up again leading Drakeford to institute a 300% tax hike on second homes as a workaround to the problem, which was destroying several communities.

Meanwhile, the economic benefit to you as a wealthy person of having access to cheap labour is fairly well documented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meibion_Glynd%C5%B5r

> Meibion Glyndŵr (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈməibjɔn ɡlɨnˈduːr], Sons of Glyndŵr) was a group linked to arson of English-owned holiday homes in Wales. They were formed in response to the housing crisis in Wales precipitated by large numbers of houses being bought by wealthy English people for use as holiday homes, pushing up house prices beyond the means of many locals. They were responsible for setting fire to English-owned holiday homes in Wales from 1979 to the mid-1990s

The campaign escalated from burning down peoples property towards mailing bombs to members of parliament, before dying down a bit during the Labour years before the housing crash put it on hold until recently, where Drakefords approach has been tried. If you put it to a vote, the Welsh would probably ban the English from moving or owning property here except in small numbers. Because it can't be put to a vote, you get this kind of situation.

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/meibion-glyndr-decades-long-housing-22447226

It's especially bad as they keep buying housing in welsh language communities, and it's barely recovering as a language after the centuries of violent suppression of it... by the English. So for those communities to then be priced out and forcibly dispersed threatens the existence of the language. Hence, Arson.

> They were determined to discourage people buying up relatively cheap homes, as this pushed up house prices, drove out locals who couldn't afford to get on the property market and threatened the existence of the Welsh language and culture, as they saw it.

> The homeowner claimed that he was hated by the community, had been blacklisted by nationalist extremists and his life was ultimately threatened, Wales Online reported A letter claiming to be from Meibion Glyndŵr was sent to him. It read: "You are an English colonist. You are racist and anti-Welsh. You must leave Wales by March 1, 1993, or we will take revenge and you won't dare breathe. Go home you imperialist scum."

This is why it doesn't shock me at all that poorer income countries, who will tend to be more at the "Victim of their rich neighbors" end of the scale in history, would adopt this attitude.

Also;

> in the decade following the attacks, no arrests were made and most cases were left unsolved.

This might give you an indication of the general sentiment about it, given that the Welsh police are also Welsh...

And;

> Despite a £50,000 reward and appeals on programmes such as BBC Crimewatch, no one came forward in Wales with evidence against the group.

Not a single person...

And the popular newspaper cartoon of "Wales gives the English a Warm Welcome" showing a house on fire. Again. Popular.

> "This happened for a long time and I'm sure the police felt some sort of pressure. The fact they couldn't find anyone was a testament to the support the campaign received. I even think that some of the police officers involved in the operation sympathised with the situation we were facing.

I think a distinction should be drawn between pain and comfort management VS disease treatment for these purposes. I'm broadly fine with the latter being characterized as misinformation and a problem to be dealt with, but the former is often "unproven" and in some ways unprovable except by patient reporting, and in cases where only a minority find a treatment useful for those purposes it can be difficult to study and determine, as well as ethically questionable if its simply a placebo effect assisting those who distrust medical establishments and their pills, including placebos. I dont see much of an issue with alternative pain and quality of life treatments if they are not directly medically inadvisable like quaffing bleach or something. Alternative treatment stuff should probably be cracked down on though.

“My preliminary findings indicate that humans are not universally fascinated by fire. On the contrary, this fascination is a consequence of inadequate experience with fire during development.” University of California, Daniel Fessler.

"Where fire is generally used in day-to-day activities, people only become interested in fire until they master their control of it. At that point there is a significant dropoff of interest. In modern civilization, where that is not the case, interest in looking at fire and being mesmerized by watching it persists throughout life."

I would wager if you watch pyrotechnicians and other fire-users in a modern civilization you will notice they don't fire-watch in the same way others do. Tribal folks apparently don't behave this way.