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@jampoole is Jim Poole, though your point that it was likely an unchecked assumption is well taken.
by dangerlibrary 12y ago
@jampoole is Jim Poole, though your point that it was likely an unchecked assumption is well taken.
- erikb 12y agoJim Poole like in Baseball (google result, still no idea who it is, but looks male)? You talk about this guy like everybody is supposed to know who that is. I know so many people with a name from the other gender (most prominent in my head a girl named David), that "Jim" is not a response to the question if the author is male or female to me.
- nedwin 12y agojampoole is the original poster of the thread you're commenting on.
- erikb 12y agoAnd from the text "jampoole" you can recognize that the person is called "Jim Poole"?
- dangerlibrary 12y agoI agree that it doesn't collapse the distribution, but from a Bayesian perspective it should probably shift the likelihood towards male. Certainly enough that using a slashy pronoun (he/she, etc.) isn't strictly necessary for a HN comment.