most women are incredibly stupid, and quite useless
Most people are incredibly stupid, and quite useless. Women are people. QED.
Are women in my social circle generally less intelligent than the men in them? Yes, because women have lower IQ variance and I don’t generally stick around with the left half of the Gaussian.
They aren’t. Which shows that “most X are Y” and “all Z are X” doesn’t entail “most Z are Y” (even though the conclusion might still happen to be true, for some values of Z and Y).
Most people are incredibly stupid, and quite useless. Women are people. QED.
Are women in my social circle generally less intelligent than the men in them? Yes, because women have lower IQ variance and I don’t generally stick around with the left half of the Gaussian.
Most people are incredibly stupid, and quite useless. Nobel laureates are people.
Clearly average Nobel laureates are much like average women.
They aren’t. Which shows that “most X are Y” and “all Z are X” doesn’t entail “most Z are Y” (even though the conclusion might still happen to be true, for some values of Z and Y).