Emile comments on Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy - Less Wrong

82 Post author: AnnaSalamon 29 October 2010 12:00AM

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Comment author: Vaniver 02 November 2013 10:48:12PM *  2 points [-]

You might be able to inoculate yourself against that by also calculating and quoting the conjugate male/female ratio of the lowest 0.1% of the population.

Why would that "inoculate" you? Yeah, it makes it obvious that you're not talking about a mean difference (except for, you know, the real mean difference found in the study), but saying "there are more men than women in prisons and more men than women that are math professors at Harvard" is still not gender egalitarian.