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The whole point of statistical trends is that they ARE generalizations. Yes, you can find individual cases which buck the trend, but across a large sample grou
by modoc 18y ago
The whole point of statistical trends is that they ARE generalizations. Yes, you can find individual cases which buck the trend, but across a large sample group, these are the tendencies...
How could you talk about gender roles and differences without generalizing? Or really talk about any demographic larger than a handful of people? Just because it's a generalization, doesn't mean it's not a useful piece of information.
- silencio 18y agoMy problem with discussing gender differences in engineering is that there isn't enough research into it. It can be a useful piece of information in the correct context, but I didn't believe the above was. There are women in IT who are interested in people and relationships and they are still engineers. There are women who hate people and are engineers. There are men....you get the idea.
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- sealedidentity 18y agoThanks for the support mate. It's amazing how people get pissy for the simplest things.