mattnewport comments on Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych - Less Wrong

52 Post author: Alicorn 22 February 2010 01:53AM

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Comment author: mattnewport 25 February 2010 07:07:43AM 9 points [-]

That's 95% confidence that the username would be picked by a female. Not at all the same thing as a 95% confidence that a person who likes unicorns is female. You are ignoring the fact that picking such a username is a powerful signal (to people who know what it means). I think unicorns are kind of cool but that doesn't mean I would pick a username that references unicorns.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 February 2010 01:08:51PM *  0 points [-]

"Alicorn" sounds much more feminine than either "Unicorn" or "Aliborn".