TimS comments on How to understand people better - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TimS 11 October 2011 12:21:32PM 8 points [-]

By social convention, "I don't understand women" includes the implicit term "And learning more about women does not pay off at what I consider reasonable effort."

I agree that statement is implicit and not a necessary part of the spoken utterance, but it is almost always there. Consider the very similar statement (by a non-nerd) "I don't understand math." It's substantially the same issue.