First sorry for the typo.
That's close enough to not effect his point, or even the order. I think you're engaging in motivated continuing to avoid having to acknowledge conclusions you find uncomfortable.
Claiming 4 degrees of accuracy means, claiming that the factor of uncertainity about the difference is off by a factor of more than ten.
Understanding the uncertainity that exist in vital for reasoning effectively about what's true.
Do you also apply the same criticism to the (much larger number of) people how make (much larger errors) in the direction of no difference?
Different people have different goals. If your goal is the search for truth than it matters greatly whether what you speaking is true.
If your goal is to spread memes that produce social change than it makes sense to use different criteria.
What does discrimination mean? If a job application with a name that common with black people gets rejected while an identical one with a name that's common with white people gets accepted that would be an example of bad discrimination.
If a job application with a name that common with black people gets rejected while an identical one with a name that's common with white people gets accepted that would be an example of bad discrimination.
Does it matter if having said name is in fact correlated with job performance?
Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are: