billswift comments on Of Gender and Rationality - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 April 2009 12:56AM

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Comment author: billswift 16 April 2009 03:49:06PM *  0 points [-]

Off-thread; but I hate the phrase "all else equal" in the real world all else is never equal. I think we need to try to decide what people are trying to say with the phrase and come up with a clearer way of saying it.

Comment author: Alicorn 16 April 2009 04:52:32PM 3 points [-]

"In a hypothetical situation with no confounding factors"?