MugaSofer comments on The Psychological Diversity of Mankind - Less Wrong

79 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 09 May 2010 05:53AM

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Comment author: SilasBarta 10 May 2010 07:46:05PM *  -1 points [-]

The skills may be different, but the assumption that everyone should have at least moderate skill at what comes easy to you is the same.

And the belief that "Y, rather than Z is the obvious inference given X " is different across people, and is evidence of psychological diversity, and is the case frequently, including here. The universal presence of a belief of the form "You should have moderate skill at X" does not contradict this.

Comment author: MugaSofer 21 January 2013 11:19:08PM -2 points [-]

People are not necessarily born with their current skill set, though, yes?