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Study finds bullies have more children than non-bullies (phys.org)

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I didn't change the title, but without access to the original article, it seems like a correlation not causation.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

The study seems to mention that the bullies have children at an earlier age. I'd be willing to guess that the relation between having more children and bullying is purely correlative and that neither factor has any direct impact on the other. Instead, it seems significantly more likely that impulsiveness drives both bullying behavior and unsafe sex, which then leads to more children.

It seems somewhat odd to me that, instead of addressing possible mechanisms of this correlation, the authors talk about how bullying is an evolutionary trait to pass on genes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

It seems somewhat odd to me that, instead of addressing possible mechanisms of this correlation, the authors talk about how bullying is an evolutionary trait to pass on genes.

Yeah, that's why I want to get my hands on the study. Maybe the authors did consider that but the article is misrepresenting the study.