red75 comments on Some Thoughts Are Too Dangerous For Brains to Think - Less Wrong

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Comment author: red75 13 July 2010 04:27:24PM 11 points [-]

One specific and relatively common version of this are people who believe that women have a lower standard deviation on measures of IQ than men. This belief is not incompatible with believing that any particular woman might be astonishingly intelligent, but these people all seem to have a great deal of trouble applying the latter to any particular woman.

Your evidence is not quite about beliefs. I think correct version is:

People that don't mind to share that they believe that women have a lower... etc.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 13 July 2010 05:30:44PM 7 points [-]

Another version is that bigots can't shut up about it.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 August 2012 06:37:03PM 3 points [-]

Yeah. I have that belief too, but I don't point it out unless that's particularly relevant to the conversation, nor do I try to steer conversations towards that region of topicspace unless I have some compellingly strong reason to do that.

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