In fact the exact ratio of male to female births is not what is important. Scholars believe that a question even more worth discussing ought to be why, in a society which calls itself modern and prides itself on having created an economic miracle, the phenomenon of using prenatal diagnostic testing to determine fetal gender and then aborting female fetuses should exist at all.
事實上，男、女比數字多少已不重要，學界認為，對一個自稱現代化、創造經濟奇蹟的社會而言，會發生以醫療技術鑑定胎兒性別、再將女嬰墮胎、淘汰的事，應該成為更值得討論的問題。