11Dec/091
Natural Parenting
by Jeff
Image text: On one hand, every single one of my ancestors going back billions of years has managed to figured it out. On the other hand, that's the mother of all sampling biases.
This comic is saying that sex "comes naturally".
Sampling bias is a non-random sample of participants in a study. In this case, all of the participants were self-selected to be parents. And of course there is a pun in "mother of all sampling biases".
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Specifically, all the participants were successful enough parents to not only produce offspring, but offspring successful enough to producing offspring successful enough to produce offspring successful enough… etc… to produce the current living generation.