Agreed. I can imagine possible worlds in which race and gender egalitarianism would be silly.
What I should have said is that it is a heuristic, which is generally believed to hold in all cases where between group variation is less than within-group variation. (Which is why it’s okay that athletics are gender segregated)
What I should have said is that it is a heuristic, which is generally believed to hold in all cases where between group variation is less than within-group variation. (Which is why it’s okay that athletics are gender segregated)
Well, depending on the metrics you use, within-group variation for men’s and women’s athletic ability is much greater than between-group variation. After all, the difference between the most and least athletic women, or between the most and least athletic men, is much greater than the average difference between men and women, or the difference between the top men and the top women.
Between-group differences can be small relative to within-group differences (certainly significantly smaller than the difference in average athletic ability between men and women,) while still dominating representation of the groups at the tail ends of an activity.
Oh, and, um, I just remembered that I’m supposed to make my comments more valuable because someone is periodically downvoting them in blocks and the ones that don’t get upvoted are, thus, effectively costing me karma to post
Downvoted for off-topic whining. There are places where I’d consider it appropriate to complain about karmassinations (e.g., the open thread), but I can’t see how a reply to Ishaan’s comment would be such a place.
I, um, wasn’t complaining. I just wanted to add a little more content than “excellent”. I guess it’s hard to get tone across in text … anyway, I’m sorry if the digression annoyed you, I’ll bear that in mind next time.
Assuming this is primarily a problem because it makes your comments less likely to be read, why not just change your handle? That’ll throw them off your tail.
Yup. It also gives people a slight impression that the comment was mildly unpopular—not sure what effect that has—and, this is the big one, means that I can’t downvote because of anti-troll measures. Which, of course, I always forget, which is annoying.
OK, so it’s not that bad. Still.
But believe it or not, I actually set up another account under a different name and posted some constructive comments to give it a positive karma score (I had a vague plan to use it for stuff that was more affected than average?) Something I said gave it away, at the same time I discovered this wasn’t a one-off thing on my regular account.
Or, alternatively, I’m so annoying that I was both the first and second people to be karmassasinated (AFAICT). Can’t forget that possibility.
Agreed. I can imagine possible worlds in which race and gender egalitarianism would be silly.
What I should have said is that it is a heuristic, which is generally believed to hold in all cases where between group variation is less than within-group variation. (Which is why it’s okay that athletics are gender segregated)
Well, depending on the metrics you use, within-group variation for men’s and women’s athletic ability is much greater than between-group variation. After all, the difference between the most and least athletic women, or between the most and least athletic men, is much greater than the average difference between men and women, or the difference between the top men and the top women.
Between-group differences can be small relative to within-group differences (certainly significantly smaller than the difference in average athletic ability between men and women,) while still dominating representation of the groups at the tail ends of an activity.
Excellent!
Oh, and, um, I just remembered that I’m supposed to make my comments more valuable because someone is periodically downvoting them in blocks and the ones that don’t get upvoted are, thus, effectively costing me karma to post
Um...
What a meta comment this has been! Selfawareness!
Downvoted for off-topic whining. There are places where I’d consider it appropriate to complain about karmassinations (e.g., the open thread), but I can’t see how a reply to Ishaan’s comment would be such a place.
I, um, wasn’t complaining. I just wanted to add a little more content than “excellent”. I guess it’s hard to get tone across in text … anyway, I’m sorry if the digression annoyed you, I’ll bear that in mind next time.
Assuming this is primarily a problem because it makes your comments less likely to be read, why not just change your handle? That’ll throw them off your tail.
Yup. It also gives people a slight impression that the comment was mildly unpopular—not sure what effect that has—and, this is the big one, means that I can’t downvote because of anti-troll measures. Which, of course, I always forget, which is annoying.
OK, so it’s not that bad. Still.
But believe it or not, I actually set up another account under a different name and posted some constructive comments to give it a positive karma score (I had a vague plan to use it for stuff that was more affected than average?) Something I said gave it away, at the same time I discovered this wasn’t a one-off thing on my regular account.
Or, alternatively, I’m so annoying that I was both the first and second people to be karmassasinated (AFAICT). Can’t forget that possibility.