NO BABY BOOM OR SEX RATIO CHANGES FOLLOWING FIFTY SHADES OF GREY IN ENGLAND AND WALES
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Fifty Shades of Grey (FSOG) was a 7/2011 erotic romance that traces the deepening and complex relationship between a college graduate and a young business magnate, with soft porn elements that include bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, and sadism/masochism. The media hyped this, claiming FSOG “sparked a “mommy porn” revolution”. The second and third volumes of FSOG were published in 4/2012. FSOG was touted as inciting increased coital activity, thereby potentially resulting in a baby boom. August authorities were cited as confirming this effect. Robin Milhausen, an Associate Professor of Family Relations and Human Sexuality at the University of Guelph, was quoted: “the material is arousing... Many women respond to the book and don’t even know it. It’s leading to more sex”. The male to female ratio at birth (male divided by total births: M/T) approximates 0.515 (slight males excess). Numerous factors may affect M/T. Thus, increased coital activity will increase the likelihood of conception early in the cycle, increasing male conceptions. This study sought spikes in total births or M/T in England and Wales circa nine months following FSOG books.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".