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omonra | 8 years ago

Long and pointlessly rambling SJW piece that's hard to take seriously, let alone criticize for complete lack of hard data or structure. She raises interesting questions:

  1) Is risk taking endemic to men? The way to answer it would be to look at studies (or data as proxy) that look at this across countries. I am sceptical of her favored methodological venue (let's ask questions) - instead if she were genuinely interested in the truth, she'd look at hard data. Things like incidence of unprotected sex among men vs women - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21281095.

 2) Is risk taking more common for white men vs nonwhites (or in a less racist angle - by comparing countries instead of races)? Again hard data - prison populations, incidence of sports injuries, etc.
Science is actually about finding ways to measure things that you can't simply ask people and expect to get honest answers.

What she's doing is not science but social commentary - whose value is zero.

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