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if the confidence given is 97% for it being the wrong gender for me, I doubt that it's actually an effective tool. Not necessarily. Of all those it predicts wi
by hugh3 16y ago
if the confidence given is 97% for it being the wrong gender for me, I doubt that it's actually an effective tool.
Not necessarily. Of all those it predicts with a 97% confidence interval, you'd expect it to be wrong 3% of the time. Without any information other than that it was wrong about you, there's not much evidence about how accurate it is.
I can't find their name, but there is an African tribe where, as a courtship ritual, men dress up and wear makeup to attract women. To other people, this would sound like gender roles are reversed, but in reality, it's just their cultural definition of gender roles at play.
Men dress up to attract women in just about every culture. The fact that they also wear makeup shouldn't be surprising.
I can't find their name, but there is an African tribe where, as a courtship ritual, men dress up and wear makeup to attract women. To other people, this would sound like gender roles are reversed, but in reality, it's just their cultural definition of gender roles at play.
My, what a lot of big words. Of course, what we're looking at is somewhat culturally dependent; it just so happens that in our culture there's a heavily male-biased interest in, frinstance, looking at car websites (these seem to be the most male-dominated sites on the list it gives me). What's really interesting, though, is to what extent these patterns persist across different cultures... are men always more interested in transport than women are?
- smallblacksun 16y agoMen (in American culture and similar ones) aren't interested in cars because they are transport. They are interested in cars because they make noise and go fast.