JoshuaZ comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 26 April 2012 05:13:19AM *  0 points [-]

(As for cases when the evidence from race is not so easy to screen off... well, I've never heard anybody being accused of racism for pointing out that Africans have longer penises than Asians.)

Minor note, this appears to actually not be the case. Most studies have no correlation between race and penis size. See for example here. The only group that there may be some substantial difference is that Chinese babies may have smaller genitalia after birth but this doesn't appear to hold over to a significant difference by the time the children have reached puberty. Relevant study.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 May 2012 01:40:07PM 1 point [-]

Huh, according to this map the average Congolese penis is nearly twice as long as the average South Korean penis. (ISTR that stretched flaccid length doesn't perfectly correlate with erect length.)

Comment author: Nornagest 26 April 2012 05:31:14AM 0 points [-]

Oddly salient for such a trivial result. Should a study qualify for an Ig Nobel if you can use it to settle bar bets?