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Originally Posted by daswig
To whom? For the adoptive parents, sure, it would guarantee that they got a healthy baby. For the healthy baby, yup, it'd increase their chance for adoption. For the unhealthy baby, well, it'd just plain suck for them now, wouldn't it...
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*nod*, but if more parents are scared away by the possibility of adopting an unhealthy baby than the number of unhealthy babies...
Imagine if there are 100 babies up for adoption, and 5 of them are sick with a particular problem.
50 parents are willing to adopt a baby if there is a 5% chance that the baby is sick with that particular problem.
95 parents are willing to adopt a baby if there is a 0% chance that the baby is sick with that particular problem.
In the first case, every baby has a 50% chance of being adopted. In the second case, the non-sick babies have a 100% chance of being adopted, with an overall average rate of 95%.
That, roughly, is a situation that might be described as "better". The sick babies get it worse, sadly.