Sunday, March 23, 2008

Which Country Has Most Sex Change Operations?

At least the most taxpayer funded sex change operations? You'll be very surprised.

4 Comments:

At 3/23/2008 9:39 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not really as the other option is to be hanged.

 
At 3/23/2008 7:02 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The fact is nevertheless quite remarkable. Who would think that the country which leads the world in consumption of solar energy was China or that the laws of Salem offered property rights to women and had provisions for divorce which were almost unheard of in Europe?

It is very easy to dismiss what does not fit our perception of what kind of society Iran is. Once we make a initial assessment decision (an anchor), this assessment colors our future decisions/perceptions.

Predictably Irrational by Dan Arielly has some interesting experiments on how our decisions are influenced by pricing anchors. There is also a Harvard medical school prof who recently wrote a book about the influence of anchors in misdiagnosis in the medical profession. What he found was that once a physician had made an initial judgement about the diagnosis, he/she often stuck with the original diagnosis ignoring or dismissing other symptoms which did not fit leading to misdiagnosis.

It is curious that we will be drawn to certain ideas while discarding others which don't fit our pre-conceived notions. Perhaps, things we think are counter-intuitive are also deserving of our attention.

 
At 3/24/2008 6:30 AM, Blogger holeydonut said...

So what's the motivation for Thailand being #1?

 
At 3/24/2008 7:21 PM, Blogger juandos said...

Sex change?!?!

Hmmm, let's call it what it is, mutilation of one's sexual organs...

Men who transpose themselves into 'pseudo women' can't give birth and women who change over faux men can't make someone pregnant...

 

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