To clarify: Do women have certain defining tendencies *on average*? Yes. Can you ever assume anything about a woman based on her gender? No.https://twitter.com/sentientist/status/894959693822558209 …
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Gurindoor Retweeted Diana S. Fleischman
To clarify: Do women have certain defining tendencies *on average*? Yes. Can you ever assume anything about a woman based on her gender? No.https://twitter.com/sentientist/status/894959693822558209 …
Gurindoor added,
I am unsure if that is the correct conclusion to draw. See https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/in-defense-of-profiling … and http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/07/the_ethics_and_1.html …
"Statistical discrimination always harms people who are above average for their group, so on this theory it is never permissible."
Seems to me the article you linked to only validates my assertion.
Background to the article: author invited reasons for why stat discrimination should be limited. Then in that article he eliminated some.
Yes, discriminating is natural. I never said it wasn't. My claim was that there is no rational basis to make *assumptions* about women.
What do you mean by assumptions: Inferences based on group averages or something else?
Yes, inferences based on averages. One could reasonably expect a trait, but it's always foolish to assume a trait (as this leads to biases)
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