If you find it difficult to grasp the concept of overlapping populations, think of height. (British) men are on average 5 ft 9 and women are 5 ft 5. That is only a 7% difference. Many women exist who are taller than the average man & many men who are shorter than average woman.
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No-one says to me 'You can't be 5 ft 9. That's a man's height' because that is clearly ludicrous. I am 5 ft 9 regardless of statistical averages. The same is true of interests & abilities. Many women exist who are 5 ft 9 & many exist who want to work in tech.
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Nevertheless, we shouldn't be surprised if 80% of the people who are 5 ft 9 and 80% of people who are tech engineers are men. (I don't know the percentages). This is all that overlapping populations means. It is a fact that men & women differ on average but vary as individuals.pic.twitter.com/fY6wZNh4nZ
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merely looking at your avatar is evidence alone that men and women DO have different natural roles in life.
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Do tell? I, for one, can tell absolutely nothing about Helen's role in life from her avatar.
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I am ignoring that. Usually references to my avatar by Pepes are made to point out that I am fat.
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Very mature.
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The visual representation. For the graph averse, Venn-diagram also provided.pic.twitter.com/K60qlCpGyY
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Understanding distributions or at least normal distributions helps too. Hopefully they are still teaching this in schools, but evidence suggests they may not be.
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