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TheOtherDave comments on Open Thread, January 2011 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 23 January 2011 07:57:30PM 2 points [-]

There are enough examples of people making broad general claims about how men and women think and behave that aren't particularly supported by data that such a post is, I expect, something of an uphill climb.

Put another way: that any given post on the subject is just another attempt to support pre-existing social preconceptions with pragmatic-sounding but ultimately ungrounded assertions is a pretty high prior probability for some readers (myself included), so overcoming that prior with evidence is important.

That said, IMHO a post that is demonstrably grounded in actual data, genuinely relevant to questions of how people think and behave, and at least somewhat novel ought to garner more approval than disapproval.