Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140818053714/@comment-24891101-20151105211427

Please don't quote adjacent or near-adjacent posts in their entirety; it just produces walls of text.

I'm a bit leery of adjusting the incidence rate in fiction, simply because there's no good justification for it. Further, it could equally be used to remove the incidence entirely, to which people would cry erasure. It's also a more fundamental thing, biologically speaking, than something like race.

That said, for a given population of characters, statistics don't really apply (as they only are representative of large populations), and one can make any number of characters whatever one wills, and indeed locally overrepresent a demographic within a cast, though one would caution against doing so to every character, or even most of them, simply indeed on account of underlying statistics, as such would be present absent external pressures.