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Would you care to enlighten us with the truth?
by CathedralBorrow 7y ago
Would you care to enlighten us with the truth?
- taneq 7y agoThey're suggesting that women, on average, just aren't as good as men at some things (and vice versa): > perhaps men and women don't have the same performance envelope in every walk of life
- mafuy 7y agoNo, they are suggesting that the top performing women just aren't as good as the top performing men. A small but important difference. I believe what they said is right. At the same time, I also believe that the worst performing men perform worse than the worst performing women - males have a wider spread of ability.
- jabgrabdthrow 7y agoHe’s just rejecting the null hypothesis, asking for a working theory in its place is a bit of a rhetorical fallacy
- d0mine 7y agoeven if the average might be the same, the tails of the distribution may differ e.g., IQ distribution https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2015/10/02/sorry-girls-but-the-smartest-people-in-the-world-are-all-men/ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2015/10/02/sorry-girls-bu... (a man is more likely to be a fool or genius)