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...and that's the fastest I've ever accumulated downvotes. Come on guys, I didn't say that women are dumber than men. I just said that this is the single most

by araneae 16y ago

...and that's the fastest I've ever accumulated downvotes. Come on guys, I didn't say that women are dumber than men. I just said that this is the single most convincing piece evidence for that. Doesn't say much for the existing evidence given that this is a crappy non-scientific OKCupid blog post, now does it? Knee-jerkers.

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BrandonM 16y ago
> Come on guys, I didn't say that women are dumber than men. I just said that this is the single most convincing piece evidence for that. You're missing the deeper implication that you're cruising around the Internet looking for, and pouncing on, such evidence. Why is it important to you whether or not women are dumber than men? > given that this is a crappy non-scientific OKCupid blog post In my opinion, OKCupid's OKTrends blog posts are second only to MythBusters in putting out interesting, entertaining, scientific answers to questions for which a lot of people are either completely uncertain of the answer or have terrible misconceptions.
- araneae 16y ago
  >Why is it important to you whether or not women are dumber than men? Wouldn't you want to know if you carry within you an inherent deficit or advantage? I do. That's why I got my genome sequenced. Now I know my risk of colorectal cancer. Knowledge is power. Blah blah blah. Also it's interesting. And clearly it's not just interesting to me, but to HN as a whole. There's a sex-related post on the front page practically every time it loads. >OKCupid's OKTrends blog posts are second only to MythBusters in putting out interesting, entertaining, scientific answers to questions So you admit that in terms of one scientific fact that has implications for a person's understanding of size, scale, and space, women are inferior to men.
- yummyfajitas 16y ago
  You're missing the deeper implication that you're cruising around the Internet looking for, and pouncing on, such evidence. Why is it important to you whether or not women are dumber than men? Perhaps he is, in fact, cruising the information looking for evidence that women are dumber than men. So what? His desire for knowledge harms no one. You imply (without evidence) that he is biased. What is the point of your comment, besides lowering his status?
  - BrandonM 16y ago
    The point of my comment was to reply to his comment which was questioning why he was downvoted. I downvoted neither of his comments.
raganwald 16y ago
Come on guys, I didn't say that women are dumber than men. I just said that this is the single most convincing piece evidence for that. Well, I think we need to spend a little time agreeing on the definition of "dumber." Does it mean IQ? General knowledge? Something else? If we can agree on a test of some kind that we can apply to a single person, how do we determine whether a group of people is smarter or dumber than another group of people? For example, let's say Test "A" is to ask a single question, whether the Sun is larger than the Earth. Let's say that 90% of group "M" gets this question right, while only 10% of group "F" gets this question right. Is group "M" smarter than group "F?" That doesn't make any sense because the group isn't an organism, it isn't smart or dumb. And we can't extrapolate much about members of "F." What if "F" consists of 100 people, 90 of whom are illiterate and the remaining 10 are Astronomy PHds, while "M" consists of 100 high school seniors. Is "F" now smarter than "M" because ten of its members are more educated than all of the Ms? Selection bias matters. Remember that the OkCupid sample consists of people who are dating online. The information is interesting, but might be skewed. Perhaps a lot of educated, intelligent women are in monogamous relationships and not dating? We see this phenomenon in job hunting, where a random sample of programmers looking for a job is a terrible representation of programmers overall.
- araneae 16y ago
  Sure, selection bias matters. I never said OKcupid was statistically valid. In fact, in my second comment I disparaged it.

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BrandonM 16y ago

> Come on guys, I didn't say that women are dumber than men. I just said that this is the single most convincing piece evidence for that. You're missing the deeper implication that you're cruising around the Internet looking for, and pouncing on, such evidence. Why is it important to you whether or not women are dumber than men? > given that this is a crappy non-scientific OKCupid blog post In my opinion, OKCupid's OKTrends blog posts are second only to MythBusters in putting out interesting, entertaining, scientific answers to questions for which a lot of people are either completely uncertain of the answer or have terrible misconceptions.

araneae 16y ago
>Why is it important to you whether or not women are dumber than men? Wouldn't you want to know if you carry within you an inherent deficit or advantage? I do. That's why I got my genome sequenced. Now I know my risk of colorectal cancer. Knowledge is power. Blah blah blah. Also it's interesting. And clearly it's not just interesting to me, but to HN as a whole. There's a sex-related post on the front page practically every time it loads. >OKCupid's OKTrends blog posts are second only to MythBusters in putting out interesting, entertaining, scientific answers to questions So you admit that in terms of one scientific fact that has implications for a person's understanding of size, scale, and space, women are inferior to men.
yummyfajitas 16y ago
You're missing the deeper implication that you're cruising around the Internet looking for, and pouncing on, such evidence. Why is it important to you whether or not women are dumber than men? Perhaps he is, in fact, cruising the information looking for evidence that women are dumber than men. So what? His desire for knowledge harms no one. You imply (without evidence) that he is biased. What is the point of your comment, besides lowering his status?
- BrandonM 16y ago
  The point of my comment was to reply to his comment which was questioning why he was downvoted. I downvoted neither of his comments.

raganwald 16y ago

Come on guys, I didn't say that women are dumber than men. I just said that this is the single most convincing piece evidence for that. Well, I think we need to spend a little time agreeing on the definition of "dumber." Does it mean IQ? General knowledge? Something else? If we can agree on a test of some kind that we can apply to a single person, how do we determine whether a group of people is smarter or dumber than another group of people? For example, let's say Test "A" is to ask a single question, whether the Sun is larger than the Earth. Let's say that 90% of group "M" gets this question right, while only 10% of group "F" gets this question right. Is group "M" smarter than group "F?" That doesn't make any sense because the group isn't an organism, it isn't smart or dumb. And we can't extrapolate much about members of "F." What if "F" consists of 100 people, 90 of whom are illiterate and the remaining 10 are Astronomy PHds, while "M" consists of 100 high school seniors. Is "F" now smarter than "M" because ten of its members are more educated than all of the Ms? Selection bias matters. Remember that the OkCupid sample consists of people who are dating online. The information is interesting, but might be skewed. Perhaps a lot of educated, intelligent women are in monogamous relationships and not dating? We see this phenomenon in job hunting, where a random sample of programmers looking for a job is a terrible representation of programmers overall.

araneae 16y ago
Sure, selection bias matters. I never said OKcupid was statistically valid. In fact, in my second comment I disparaged it.