TimS comments on LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TimS 27 November 2012 04:12:32PM 1 point [-]

It depends substantially on the cat-callers' motivation. If he thought the behavior was high status, how should others indicate the behavior is low status?

As you say, some proportion of cat-callers will code your intervention as low status and therefore not worth listening to. But some people really don't have a good sense of what the appropriate behavior is, and it is hard to classify three distinction with only behavioral data.