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by chroma 11y ago
In the original mental rotation test, there was no overlap between men and women: https://brothersdiamond.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/menwoman... The Vandenberg and Kuse paper[1] followed up on this using a test t
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by chroma 11y ago
With mental rotation, there is practically no overlap. See the graph from the original study.[1] It's a similar story for physical strength. Nobody denies that men tend to be stronger than women, but most people vastly underestimate th
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by chroma 11y ago
Did your colleague know about mental rotation tests?[1] Men perform significantly better than women at these. And among men, mental rotation ability is correlated with testosterone levels.[2] I could see your buddy arguing that culture was
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by chroma 11y ago
No. You are putting words in my mouth.
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by chroma 11y ago
> Americans and the Japanese really don't have much history of oppression (except for WW2 internment), so I'd say it "doesn't count" as cultural appropriation. Yes, except for that time when the US forced Japan i
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by chroma 11y ago
I'm pretty sure the concept of appropriation is the end result of signalling games. As racism waned in popularity, racists were forced to conceal their racism with euphemisms and dog whistles[1]. Non-racists eventually figured this out
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by chroma 11y ago
If you've ever tried to run with a backpack or headlamp, you'd know it's a giant pain. Headlamps bounce up and down (no matter what sort of straps you have), often becoming dislodged. It's enough of an annoyance that I d
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by chroma 11y ago
Drones would have to be much more troublesome than they currently are to justify the current or proposed restrictions. Every time a drone causes a problem, there's a story about it. Could you imagine if the same were true for privat
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by chroma 11y ago
My point is that the current and proposed rules are centered around preserving general aviation. Nobody is seriously proposing restricting general aviation to the benefit of drones, despite the fact that it would almost certainly be better
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by chroma 11y ago
The current and proposed restrictions on drones seem insane to me. To see why, do the reversal test.[1] Imagine if single-prop planes didn't exist, and drones were already used for productive purposes. Courier drones deliver packages i
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by chroma 11y ago
> Talk to anyone in the pacific northwest. If you take only the slightest precautions you have nothing to fear from the wolves, cougars and bears. I lived in Washington for six years, and I can say that's simply not true. Protecting
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by chroma 11y ago
"To be lying in your tent in the middle of nowhere and to hear a wolf cry. Now that must be quite something." The first time? Maybe. It quickly becomes distracting, annoying, and (depending on the distance) frightening. The only
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by chroma 11y ago
> 1) In countries where health costs are at least partly absorbed by everyone, then it does have a right. I worry that this sort of thinking might end up like the Commerce Clause[1]. Just as there are many actions that affect interstate
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by chroma 11y ago
Your username looked familiar. I finally figured out where I'd seen it. Earlier this year, we both commented on an article about the Charlie Hebdo massacre.[1][2] You said, "I think both parties were at wrong here." and, &quo
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by chroma 11y ago
> - what should you do if your government demands you secretly backdoor a specific user? They've got a warrant or a court order? OK. > - what if your easiest recruiting channels yield a higher proportion of white males than other
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by chroma 11y ago
Scott Alexander (of slatestarcodex) once wrote about medical ethics[1]: > Listen up, this will be on the test. You need to help patients, not hurt them. You need to be responsible. Try to avoid being irresponsible. Try to act professiona
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by chroma 11y ago
So if a government was sufficiently competent, you'd be in favor of them executing people for some crimes? I don't ask this to be snarky. I'd like for the death penalty to be abolished. But I do want to know if that's yo
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by chroma 11y ago
MMA likes to tout itself as the closest thing to a pure fight, but it's scarcely less restrictive than boxing. Fish-hooking, biting, eye-gouging, rabbit-punching, breaking and dislocating fingers and toes... those were never allowed. E
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by chroma 11y ago
I'm fine with a huge wage gap, but most people aren't. There's an odd defect in most people's thinking where if you make some small contribution toward solving a problem, they'll berate you for not doing more.[1] I&
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by chroma 11y ago
I agree with pretty much every criticism in this article. Where I differ in opinion is the solution. First, there's the "me too" effect. If colleges pay football players, other athletes will want to be paid. They'll ask,
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by chroma 11y ago
"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect." — Teller I don't know if Teller intended it, but his observation applies to much more than stage magic. The quote is
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by chroma 11y ago
Cattell III B measures english vocabulary, not raw cognitive horsepower. I've no doubt this girl is extremely smart, but the test she took can be gamed rather easily. As the article mentions, two other children aced the same test. I&#x
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by chroma 11y ago
As I read this article, I kept thinking, "This seems like the output of a postmodernist essay generator." Rarely have I read something containing so little information while using so many long, overly-complicated sentences with bi
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by chroma 11y ago
Their first project looks nice[1]. Hopefully, they'll do similar things in the future. That list of staff does worry me, though. All of their Twitter streams are filled with counterproductive outrage. To give one example that's re
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by chroma 11y ago
I completely agree. The behavior of that officer was egregious . Engaging in dominance games is stupid and petty; doubly-so when you have weapons, training, and legal authority. I thought I addressed the stats about danger, though not deep
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by chroma 11y ago
If there's one thing people like to do in political arguments, it's caricature the opposition. While fun, it's not very productive. In this case, I find it much more useful to actually understand why police behave the way the
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by chroma 11y ago
The phrase originally came from Schenck v. US[1], in which Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said: The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. Few recall
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by chroma 11y ago
While I don't want to disparage all New Zealanders, I'm quite certain there are enough idiotic, overbearing, or corrupt officials that this law will be abused. And I'd like to stake money on this claim. I am willing to bet 1
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by chroma 11y ago
Throwaway? My account is over 5 years years old. Please look at my comment history.[1] I'm not a troll or a single-issue commenter. I use a pseudonym because sometimes I want to say things that I believe to be true, but would cause me
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by chroma 11y ago
> No one in this thread - or any comedian for that matter - is trying to incite a specific reader to take his or her life. "If you have something to say, here's what you do: You write it down on a piece of paper, you go out in

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