Douglas_Knight 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.