CronoDAS comments on Of Gender and Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 16 April 2009 10:09:05PM *  1 point [-]

1) Willingness to join Less Wrong is inversely proportional to the size of your social network.

I suggested something similar above; participating in an online discussion forum, such as this one, is a time sink that competes with maintaining an offline social network.

If

5) On average, women have larger social networks than men.

is true, then there will be more male commenters, because women have better things to do than waste time commenting here.