Project “Unscientific Knowledge and the Egg Aging Panic” Research Report I
Unscientific Visual Representations Used for the “Egg Aging” Campaign in 2010s Japan
TANAKA Sigeto (Tohoku University) 2018-08-27
All texts:
https://remcat.hatenadiary.jp/entries/2018/09/06
Chapters
- 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
