Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "jack" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 16:47:48 +1100 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <6omdnTnQgKNKXx_LnZ2dnUU78IOdnZ2d@giganews.com> <871ta5kuta.fsf@garlic.com> <87wprxj96i.fsf@garlic.com> <87mvsska3k.fsf@garlic.com> <638004010.473170649.277938.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <9527c347-d65c-4460-891b-0df68adcf841@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net bWINPmLyr21zelw29Ce2qgo3BaH0nz614OgT6lAnNJ4FNMAzA= Cancel-Lock: sha1:d2dNz1mpkPTcCPrHhpIsHzP3MBM= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:155864 "Stephen Sprunk" wrote in message news:n6cutu$pbn$1@dont-email.me... > On 03-Jan-16 21:59, Andrew Swallow wrote: >> On 04/01/2016 01:51, Osmium wrote: >>> "Stephen Sprunk" wrote: >>>> It was also common in the South after the Civil War, and it was >>>> quite common in France after WWI; in the latter case, there were >>>> something like 28 single women per single man. As a result, in >>>> both cases, men lost during the war were replaced within a single >>>> generation, so as bloody as they were, they had no long-term >>>> effects on populations. >>> >>> That 28 to 1 ratio is astonishing! In the US army in WW II 39% >>> were non-combatants so if *every* combat troop was killed or >>> severely injured, you still wouldn't have had a loss rate that >>> high. Am I misunderstanding something here? >>> >>> http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-students/ww2-history/ww2-by-the-numbers/us-military.html >> >> I suspect the important word is 'single'. They are ignoring the >> soldiers who got married. > > France lost ~4.4% of its population during WWI; Yes. > most were soldiers, i.e. men aged 18-25 The bulk of those who died werent in that age group. > who constituted ~5% of their population. That left very > few unmarried men for millions of unmarried women. Nothing even remotely like 28:1 The death rate amoungst single men was never anything even remotely like high enough to give that result.