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I think the fundamental problem is this. I've seen it happening for decades: Everyone sensible knows there are group differences between sexes. Most humans ar
by averagewall 9y ago
I think the fundamental problem is this. I've seen it happening for decades:
Everyone sensible knows there are group differences between sexes.
Most humans are bad at distinguishing group differences from individual differences.
If people are widely aware of the group differences, they'll do stereotyping and apply wrong logic to mistreat people. Or even right logic to make the best guess in the absence of other information, which turns out to be consistently discriminatory and harmful.
So we shouldn't say much publicly about the group differences. Keep it quiet among intelligent people for the public safety.
I don't like that at all, but that's how I think the popular lefty opinion works.
- unityByFreedom 9y ago> So we shouldn't say much publicly about the group differences. Keep it quiet among intelligent people for the public safety. That's not the point. The point is he is chalking up gender employment ratios to biology. Meanwhile, there are many socialization factors he is completely ignoring. This is an ancient debate, nature vs. nurture, the oldest in psychology. It's been going on for centuries, and perhaps millenia, not just decades. And, the irony is, that by arguing the cause is biology, he may be adding an additional socialization factor. Women may see this guy speaking out and decide not to work at Google because of it. That's socialization, not biological.
- Chris2048 9y ago> Women may see this guy speaking out and decide not to work at Google Or non leftist women feel they can work there. Or are all women leftist?