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Can you explain why the first thing to update after the Galton’s amazing study into imagination, was your opinion on women in general as determined by PUA’s opinion on women vs women opinion on women (the balance of conflicting opinions)? Also, btw, it is in itself a great example of biased cognition: you run across some fact, and you update selectively; the fact should lower your weight for anyone’s evaluation of anyone, but instead it just lowers the weight for women’s evaluation of women.
Also, while I am sure that you did not consciously add it just for LW audience, if you were writing for a more general audience it does seem reasonable to assume—given that you are generally a good writer—that you would not include this sort of ‘example’ of application of the findings of Galton.
And lest I sound chauvinistic, the same is certainly true of men. I hear a lot of bad things said about men (especially with reference to what they want romantically) that I wouldn’t dream of applying to myself, my close friends, or to any man I know. But they’re so common and so well-supported that I have excellent reason to believe they’re true.
Does that really sound like someone who is doing a biased, partial update?
The PUA’s opinion on women was, nonetheless, not discounted for the typical mind fallacy. (Maybe the idea is that typical mind fallacy doesn’t work across genders or something, which would be rather interesting hypothesis, but, alas, unsupported)
Originally made this account to message some people privately.
Can you explain why the first thing to update after the Galton’s amazing study into imagination, was your opinion on women in general as determined by PUA’s opinion on women vs women opinion on women (the balance of conflicting opinions)? Also, btw, it is in itself a great example of biased cognition: you run across some fact, and you update selectively; the fact should lower your weight for anyone’s evaluation of anyone, but instead it just lowers the weight for women’s evaluation of women.
Also, while I am sure that you did not consciously add it just for LW audience, if you were writing for a more general audience it does seem reasonable to assume—given that you are generally a good writer—that you would not include this sort of ‘example’ of application of the findings of Galton.
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Does that really sound like someone who is doing a biased, partial update?
The PUA’s opinion on women was, nonetheless, not discounted for the typical mind fallacy. (Maybe the idea is that typical mind fallacy doesn’t work across genders or something, which would be rather interesting hypothesis, but, alas, unsupported)