Precision is a way of fighting availability bias—if all you see is “women are shorter than men” because most women are in fact shorter than most men, then it can be hard to remember that there are women who are taller than most men.
Agreed; this is also important.
It also seems to lead to treating actual examples (say, of taller women) as irrelevant, simply because they’re in a numerical minority.
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Precision is a way of fighting availability bias—if all you see is “women are shorter than men” because most women are in fact shorter than most men, then it can be hard to remember that there are women who are taller than most men.
Agreed; this is also important.
It also seems to lead to treating actual examples (say, of taller women) as irrelevant, simply because they’re in a numerical minority.