Eugine_Nier comments on Changing Systems is Different than Running Controlled Experiments - Don’t Choose How to Run Your Country That Way! - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 15 June 2013 03:18:40AM 2 points [-]

why do we have to keep talking about all of this gender stuff? why can't we just treat people as people without reference to gender?

Because a person's gender is correlated with a lot of other properties of the person that are harder to observe directly, and we as Bayesians are obligated to condition on all the evidence we have available.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 15 June 2013 03:25:19AM 0 points [-]

You understand I was quoting that question, rather than asking it, right?