nopatternhere

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by nopatternhere 9y ago
> I think it is fair to say that the author's idea of what empathy feels like is completely different to what the rest of the world thinks I think you misunderstand what he is getting at. Yale researcher Paul Bloom wrote a whole b
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by nopatternhere 9y ago
I hate the high end examples, because people want to argue them. The case is also true the other way - there are more men at the bottom of the IQ scale. Can someone come up with a reason why an IQ test would make men appear more often in th
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by nopatternhere 9y ago
> The manifesto claims empathy for colleagues and customers is not required, but clearly it is. Can you help me understand how you reached that conclusion? Here is the relevant section of the original: > De-emphasise empathy. > I&#
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by nopatternhere 9y ago
I am constantly amazed that "society" means America. Also, that all the examples are always how white majority countries have white majority X. What about China? What about Indonesia? What about Malaysia, where there is a lot of r
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by nopatternhere 9y ago
You are here trying to persuade me, at least I assume that is the goal, you could just be here trolling I guess. To try to persuade by claiming you are as bad as everyone else seems, unpersuasive? You seem to think there are two sides: for
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by nopatternhere 9y ago
What's great is the next sentence: "But I am neither a biologist, a psychologist, nor a sociologist, so I’ll leave that to someone else." So, you know it is false, completely, and that we should ignore it because it is false,
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by nopatternhere 9y ago
So you have a study which refutes this? He's made a claim, you are just making an appeal to emotion! Show that there are no differences between men and women on these scales, or that the whole science behind the idea is sketchy (which
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by nopatternhere 9y ago
> If you truly believe people are equal and deserving of equal treatment then you must The two don't follow, at all. Lets replace this statement, and make it about the NBA. "If you truly believe people are equal and deserving o
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by nopatternhere 9y ago
Is the current user-base an asset or a liability? I guess I am asking is it a kind of technical debt? I'm not sure, and Digg is obviously the cautionary tail here on the "don't tick off the user-base" side, but I'd
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by nopatternhere 9y ago
> because they themselves are committing a wrong I think you mean crime, not wrong.
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by nopatternhere 9y ago
> Occasionally a guilty person will be acquitted, and it would really be best not to also punish an innocent as a result of that. That's not how it works, is it? it is not a battle where someone has to be guilty - either the accused