Comment on Rationality Lessons Learned from Irrational Adventures in Romance

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:32:40 GMT

You can demonstrate an absurd case, but check this out:

"On average, men are taller than women."

Note the utter dearth of twisted, tortured forced phrasing and the way it totally requires no linguistic effort to generate that context if you just stop to think before you speak. If someone disputes that, they're either clearly wrong or have an interesting study to look at (and probably debunk).

I'm a woman and I'm 6'5'' (taller than 99.9999% of women last time I checked), but I can't see what's wrong with stating it that way. Your reply is kind of a straw example of what's being asked.

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