Bugmaster comments on LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance - LessWrong

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Comment author: Bugmaster 27 November 2012 10:02:50AM 5 points [-]

I have to respectfully disagree. The articles on Main are usually a bit more structured: they have a specific point to make, and they outline the reasoning and evidence that would lead one to conclude that the point is true.

This article doesn't seem to have a central point, and it doesn't offer any reasoning. It contains a bunch of interesting anecdotes, and it is great for creating discussion, but it doesn't belong in Main.

Please don't misunderstand: I'm not saying that the article is bad (in fact, I do like it), only that it doesn't belong in Main.

Comment author: shokwave 27 November 2012 07:38:45PM 3 points [-]

they have a specific point to make, and they outline the reasoning and evidence that would lead one to conclude that the point is true .... It contains a bunch of interesting anecdotes, and it is great for creating discussion

I had the impression, reading the post, that this does have a specific point to make ("many of the problems of a male-dominated culture stem from availability biases and can be mitigated by providing information"). Rather than reason that it would be true, they're simply undertaking to carry it out.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 27 November 2012 01:00:25PM 2 points [-]

This might be a case of prototype vs. definition. I tend towards definition: articles belong in Main if they likely to be of sufficient interest to the whole community.

Articles with structure and citation are much more likely to be of sufficient interest, but that's only an indicator, not the point of having a Main section.