nick012000 comments on Variation on conformity experiment - Less Wrong

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Comment author: nick012000 09 November 2010 06:25:36PM 0 points [-]

I'm a little surprised nobody has commented on the sex difference yet. Any ideas about its significance? We can only speculate, of course, but when has that ever stopped anyone?

Probably because they didn't want to get negative karma for appearing misogynistic.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 November 2010 06:44:15PM 3 points [-]

Oh noes, negative karma!

In all seriousness, I guess if "women are dumb" is the best we can do, I'm glad nobody spoke up, but we do have people here who are capable of saying smart things about sex differences, and I wouldn't expect them to get voted down. If you find you get voted down a lot when you talk about women, you should at least consider the possibility you aren't saying things that are as smart as you thought.

Comment author: nick012000 09 November 2010 06:48:45PM 0 points [-]

I'm just offering an explanation as to the lack of response on that topic; I don't think I've been voted down on that subject largely because I've taken care to avoid it; I don't want to get banned for trolling. That sort of thing's happened to me before.