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Comment author: [deleted] 22 June 2012 01:11:13PM -2 points [-]

Most people are incredibly stupid, and quite useless. Women are people. QED.

Most people are incredibly stupid, and quite useless. Nobel laureates are people.

Comment author: CharlieSheen 22 June 2012 07:48:23PM *  1 point [-]

Clearly average Nobel laureates are much like average women.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 June 2012 05:41:28PM 2 points [-]

They aren't. Which shows that “most X are Y” and “all Z are X” doesn't entail “most Z are Y” (even though the conclusion might still happen to be true, for some values of Z and Y).