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It's not a question of science. It's a question of math. Math is a model which allows you to over-simplify other scientific fields in the first place, and then
by doombolt 8y ago
It's not a question of science. It's a question of math. Math is a model which allows you to over-simplify other scientific fields in the first place, and then devise solutions which turn out to be useful even in their over-simplified form.
This is the reason for the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. However, here I'm not pushing any direct resemblance between model and any society anywhere. You're doing that, not me.
- hef19898 8y agoBasing your "top half of females" behaviour on un-specified asumptions, failing to even hinting on what is "desirable" and then subjugating this model of society to some sort of statistical model was not my idea. nAgain not sure whether this was intentional or not or if I got your point wrong, after all we do not know each other. But again, that is to much oversimplyfication for my taste. Especially when mathematics are applied without any relevant domain knowledge.
- doombolt 8y agoDon't see why the math should be serving your taste. Nowhere in my message I am applying mathematics to a domain. I'm just stating that such math exists. Applying, or not applying, them to any real society is left as an exercise for a reader.
- Firadeoclus 8y agoWithout application to any domain (which, it seems to me, you actually do by using concrete labels rather than abstract categories), it remains unclear what makes this example "a real eye opener". In what way is it relevant?