Tumblr Users Explain Survival Bias And How It Affects Our Society

Asthma has definitely gone up as a result of air pollution. Exposure to course particulate matter in early childhood increases one's risk for developing asthma and exposure to ozone exacerbates symptoms. Another type of pollution we don't talk much about is light pollution but it contributes to increased cancer rates and certainly disrupts circadian rythyms - a major problem for people with mental health issues like me. In any case, these things are supported by scientific studies. It really is a shame that logic, rhetoric, and empirical methods are not a required part of basic education.

Noise pollution is something people don’t talk a lot about. While the ones making it may enjoy it, everyone else doesn’t; to them it’s just irritating noise (whether hearing what it is or merely feeling the unsettling thumping vibration of it) affecting their attempts at relaxation and disrupting their sleep—-which can lead to an increase in stress levels due to sleep deprivation, which itself can lead to other chronic conditions. We live in a way overly noisy world, and it is affecting us—-adversely.

There's so many new systems and customs these days, it's entirely possible kids are getting exposed to new substances.

Totally agree with you.

This is all true. There are few to no allergies or autoimmune diseases in countries with endemic parasitic infections. I learned this in immunology in college and also from my spouse who has a PhD in parasitology.

Where do you live? I'm from Germany. Is the list about Allergies or for health reasons? Because there are things you should not eat because they could hurt the Baby. Alcohol is one such thing.

I was pregnant 3 times now. I was just told to avoid things that could make me or my baby sick. During pregnancy that was some raw things like eggs (salmonella), meat (toxoplasmosis) and raw milk products (listeria). And of course no alcohol and too much caffeine. When baby was born I was just not allowed to drink alcohol or too much caffeine. Thats it. My MIL had a list with things like onions (to prevent colic) and cow milk "to prevent allergies". Its the same when baby starts eating on its own. Now you just have to make sure it can't suffocate on its food (like: don't give it whole nuts or grapes). Some years ago you would have been discouraged to give it things like cow milk before it turned 3 years old.

That's flat out not true. Lactose intolerance is 100% genetic. It's not an "allergy", it's the lack of an enzyme to convert the sugars (that would be the lactose) to a form that your body can digest. Forcing lactose intolerant kids to drink milk is child abuse.

Lactose intolerance is not 100% genetic, where's this coming from? It can be developed later in life due to number of reasons. Honestly, you can check this in any medical source or even just wikipedia))

Aunt Messy is right. A lot of Asian (or was it only Japanese?) people are lactose intolerant because they lack this enzyme.

Other countries are fine with women not reporting rape, women are diacouraged to report because "he won't get punished anyway" and save yourself more suffering etc. I wish it was not this way.

@ula in NC, USA if you get beaten by someone they have to take both persons into custody and figure out who hit whom first. It ends up on your record that you were in jail. Needless to say I didn’t press charges when my ex hit me. I was recommended to go to an office afterwards and put it on file that this dispute happened so if he ever did it again they would be more likely to not take us both to jail. Since there would be photographed evidence of what happened earlier.

The keyword in this issue is REPORTING. The number of instances have not gone up; rape has happened since the beginning of time. But you’re right, once policies for it change to adequately protect victims and prosecute perpetrators, reporting goes up. Increased reporting doesn’t correlate with increased occurrence, though it does create the illusion of it—-much like the initial perception around the increase in head injuries with the addition of helmets, until someone realized those injuries used to be deaths.

@Jonathon Smith - it doesn't matter what kind of flour you use, flour is made from wheat (or other grains) and gluten is a protein in wheat (or other grains). You don't "add" gluten, it is part and parcel with grain. Plus, it's not the flour itself that makes the cake bounce, it's the sifting and other ingredients that cause the difference.

Different varieties of wheat have different quantities of gluten. You do not 'add' it, but the strain dictates how much of it there is. In the us, the variety favoured is the 'Hard Red' which has a high gluten ratio. In Europe they favour 'soft' varieties which tend to have less gluten.

It is the kind of flour used. In north america they tend to use a type with higher gluten ratios to make the cake 'bounce' more when cooked. It is a notorious thing to the extent that pastry recipes from north america will not work outside north america. When my mother moved to Canada she found she could no long make the things she had cooked her whole life because the flour was so different to what it was in the UK.