Agreed. I can imagine possible worlds in which race and gender egalitarianism would be silly.
What I should have said is that it is a heuristic, which is generally believed to hold in all cases where between group variation is less than within-group variation. (Which is why it's okay that athletics are gender segregated)
What I should have said is that it is a heuristic, which is generally believed to hold in all cases where between group variation is less than within-group variation. (Which is why it's okay that athletics are gender segregated)
Well, depending on the metrics you use, within-group variation for men's and women's athletic ability is much greater than between-group variation. After all, the difference between the most and least athletic women, or between the most and least athletic men, is much greater than the average difference between men and women, or ...
People want to tell everything instead of telling the best 15 words. They want to learn everything instead of the best 15 words. In this thread, instead post the best 15-words from a book you've read recently (or anything else). It has to stand on its own. It's not a summary, the whole value needs to be contained in those words.
I'll start in the comments below.
(Voted by the Schelling study group as the best exercise of the meeting.)