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> I know a handful of intersex people How did you come to know a handful of intersex people? Since this is unlikely to happen at random, any non-random groupin

by Chris2048 5y ago

> I know a handful of intersex people How did you come to know a handful of intersex people? Since this is unlikely to happen at random, any non-random grouping process might produce a bias that would relevant provide context to anything you said on their behalf.

thebooktocome 5y ago
You're really saying that no one who knows more than one intersex person is allowed to comment? Okay, I'll shut up. Have a nice day.
- Chris2048 5y ago
  You're the one who used personal knowledge of intersex people a part of your argument, and authority on the topic - am I not allowed to interrogate that?
  - dang 5y ago
    Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27583439 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27583439.
    - Chris2048 5y ago
      There are no complaints about downvoting in this comment. What about this comment do you believe breaks the guidelines. I'm not sure how I could of asked the original question any differently: If someone claimed to know several albinos, and in their experience found them to all wear purple sweaters - it might might be worth finding out that they met them at the purple-sweater-albinos meetup. If someone knows a statistically unlikely group, they are unlikely to have been selected at random, so they are not necessarily a representative sample. That's why when you put forward some element in an argument, it should be possible to interrogate it. I didn't express any doubt that they knew intersex people, nor did I say their argument invalid - in fact I explicitly said that it might produce a bias.
- dang 5y ago
  I appreciate the points that you're making (sincerely; and I also get that it's an uphill battle to put it mildly) but your comments are unfortunately also crossing into the flamewar style. Can you please not do that, and in particular can you please omit the subtle personal swipes that are creeping into your comments? It makes the threads worse and it makes your arguments less persuasive to the neutral reader. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

thebooktocome 5y ago

You're really saying that no one who knows more than one intersex person is allowed to comment? Okay, I'll shut up. Have a nice day.

Chris2048 5y ago
You're the one who used personal knowledge of intersex people a part of your argument, and authority on the topic - am I not allowed to interrogate that?
- dang 5y ago
  Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27583439 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27583439.
  - Chris2048 5y ago
    There are no complaints about downvoting in this comment. What about this comment do you believe breaks the guidelines. I'm not sure how I could of asked the original question any differently: If someone claimed to know several albinos, and in their experience found them to all wear purple sweaters - it might might be worth finding out that they met them at the purple-sweater-albinos meetup. If someone knows a statistically unlikely group, they are unlikely to have been selected at random, so they are not necessarily a representative sample. That's why when you put forward some element in an argument, it should be possible to interrogate it. I didn't express any doubt that they knew intersex people, nor did I say their argument invalid - in fact I explicitly said that it might produce a bias.
dang 5y ago
I appreciate the points that you're making (sincerely; and I also get that it's an uphill battle to put it mildly) but your comments are unfortunately also crossing into the flamewar style. Can you please not do that, and in particular can you please omit the subtle personal swipes that are creeping into your comments? It makes the threads worse and it makes your arguments less persuasive to the neutral reader. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html