Project “Unscientific Knowledge and the Egg Aging Panic” Research Report I
Unscientific Visual Representations Used for the “Egg Aging” Campaign in 2010s Japan
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TANAKA Sigeto (Tohoku University) 2018-08-27
Funding: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, KAKENHI (FY2017-FY2019): 非科学的知識の生産・流通と「卵子の老化」パニック (grant number 17K02069)
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- Title: Unscientific Visual Representations Used for the “Egg Aging” Campaign in 2010s Japan
- Series: Project “Unscientific Knowledge and the Egg Aging Panic” Research Report I
- Author: TANAKA Sigeto (田中重人)
- Publisher: Tanaka Sigeto Laboratory (田中重人研究室)
- Address: School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University. Kawauti 27-1, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8576, JAPAN
- Author URL: http://tsigeto.info/office.html
- Project URL: http://tsigeto.info/egg/
- Publication URL: http://tsigeto.info/18k
- DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/xyvsa
- Publication Date: 2018-05-11 (draft); 2018-08-27 (ver. 1)
- Pages: 12
- ISBN: 978-4-9910316-0-1
(Japanese version of this report: Research Report II)
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Table of contents
- Egg aging campaign and Japanese pronatalist policy
- Misused results from a multilingual cross-national survey on fertility awareness
- Exaggerated decreasing of the number of eggs in women's ovaries
- Falsified graph of women's fertility with its peak at the age of 22 years
- Fabricated curve for a woman's likelihood of getting pregnant
- Cherry-picked natural fertility curves
- Undocumented Bayesian estimates of daily fecundability
- Chronicle from 1974 to 2015
- Life-planning guidance by the government
- References