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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?
by 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 agoPlease see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27583439 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27583439.
- Chris2048 5y agoThere 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.