And it wasn’t just a formal “almost every”—there was a description of a sort of woman who’d been left out of the discussion. I’m willing to bet that his theory of typical and atypical women is still incomplete, but at least it includes a lot more of my experience.
And I forgot to mention that I got a better understanding of a lot of the men who go in for PUA.
OK—there’s that almost, but sooner or later, we have to work on being rational about difficult things.
As I recall, what went wrong with the race and intelligence discussion was someone who kept making assertions with no evidence. I wouldn’t be surprised if that person didn’t know the what evidence was.
It might have been a moderation problem. Banning people for utter cluelessness might have been the only solution.
On the other hand, I don’t think anyone tried to engage that person in a discussion of how they thought about evidence.
And it wasn’t just a formal “almost every”—there was a description of a sort of woman who’d been left out of the discussion. I’m willing to bet that his theory of typical and atypical women is still incomplete, but at least it includes a lot more of my experience.
And I forgot to mention that I got a better understanding of a lot of the men who go in for PUA.
OK—there’s that almost, but sooner or later, we have to work on being rational about difficult things.
As I recall, what went wrong with the race and intelligence discussion was someone who kept making assertions with no evidence. I wouldn’t be surprised if that person didn’t know the what evidence was.
It might have been a moderation problem. Banning people for utter cluelessness might have been the only solution.
On the other hand, I don’t think anyone tried to engage that person in a discussion of how they thought about evidence.