ChristianKl comments on Open Thread, Apr. 27 - May 3, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 28 April 2015 10:18:52AM 1 point [-]

Why shouldn't one want the statement: 'women are better at maths than men on average' to be true?

The sentence you quote doesn't make a statement about whether one should want it to be true. It makes a statement about "wanting it to be true" being independent from 'being true".