But to go too far the other way and insist that men and women are fundamentally different psychologically neglects the far greater degree to which we are the same and can result in a loss of shared humanity and individuality in our thinking.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
This is one of the points of James Damore's much-maligned Google Memo. His overlapping bell curves were included specifically to illustrate HOW MUCH they overlap & thereby argue that m/f differences wern't an excuse for gendered discrimination (1/2)
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Replying to @hws5mp
Yes, exactly. Again, with the height example, our differences often look very much like this.pic.twitter.com/QPFIwpfjd0
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Replying to @HPluckrose @hws5mp
In your bell curve example, the variable is height. What was the variable in the bell curve chart james damore had in the memo? As i remember it was data free rendering of a chart, not an actual chart.
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Replying to @Clarissa10027 @hws5mp
Yes, I think it was just a symbol of what different distributions actually look like.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @hws5mp
Yes, so I'm curious how he proves anything about different distributions between m & f without even showing which variable he's talking about.
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Replying to @Clarissa10027 @hws5mp
Well, its a lot more than just the chart. That (I think) was just to show the difference between how people imagine gender - two distinct lines - and how it actually is - overlapping hugely.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @hws5mp
It's NOT a lot more than just the chart. It was not even an actual chart. It was a drawing of a chart. Is it how people do science these days? You just make a claim, draw a mock chart, expect the reader to imagine the rest and accept the conclusion? Something's missing here.
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Replying to @Clarissa10027 @hws5mp
Yes, a lot more. Here it is. Follow links. https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/08/10/the-google-memo-what-does-the-research-say-about-gender-differences/ … The diagram was an illustration of the error in understanding populations. It was a memo on a forum for discussing diversity issues, not a scientific paper (tho it cited several).
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Replying to @HPluckrose @hws5mp
Meta analysis says the gender diff on ability is almost nil.
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Oh! I linked the metastudy again. I meant to link the memo. Those are the links I meant to follow.https://www.scribd.com/document/355823379/Google-s-Ideological-Echo-Chamber#from_embed …
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