cousin_it comments on Less Wrong: Open Thread, September 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 09 September 2010 04:45:48PM *  5 points [-]

The flippant answer is that a group size of 1 lacks statistical significance; at some group size, that ceases to be the case.

The flippant answer to your answer is that you didn't pick LW randomly out of the set of all groups. The fact that you, a white male, consistently choose to join groups composed mostly of white males - and then inquire about diversity - could have any number of anthropic explanations from your perspective :-) In the end it seems to loop back into why are you, you again.

ETA: apparenty datadataeverywhere is female.

Comment author: datadataeverywhere 09 September 2010 04:54:46PM 0 points [-]

No, I think that's a much less flippant answer :-)