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Lumifer comments on Open Thread, Jun. 22 - Jun. 28, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jiro 23 June 2015 06:56:16PM 2 points [-]

I correctly guessed what X was. Because there's only one thing it could ever be, unless the paper was talking about very unusual subgroups like Jehovah's Witnesses in Mormon territory.

Comment author: Lumifer 23 June 2015 07:22:14PM 2 points [-]

there's only one thing it could ever be

That's an interesting observation, isn't it?

Comment author: Nornagest 23 June 2015 11:39:57PM *  1 point [-]

Between the word "beliefs" (which rules out most demographic groups), the word "openly" (which rules out anything you can't easily hide), and the existence of a plausible "anti-X" group (which rules out most multipolar situations), there's not too many possibilities left. The correct answer is the biggest, and most of the other plausible options are subsets of it.

I suppose it could also have been its converse, but you don't hear too much about discrimination cases going that way.