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RE: Are Gender Stereotypes Accurate?

in #steemstem5 years ago

Stereotypes are a pain… especially those days. It is crazy how one generalizes so easily. Writing this sentence (after reading the first few sentences of your post), I was thinking about machine learning at the same time… The entire world is currently mostly about generalization without most of the time even trying to understand how they arise. People just assume it works (which may be true for quantitative sciences, although I am very sceptical as most of the results still often come with any error bar…

I will never understand a lot of these feminists’ speeches (I get in contact with some of them once in a while in my daily life). Men and women are biologically different. That is a fact. And then? Okay, differences can arise in some domains more than in others, and this is interesting to study. And inversely, there may be domains where it is impossible to point anything different. But then?

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Generalizations make (our brain's) life easier! I remember a story about a person who was blind from birth and then an operation gave him vision. Every time he saw his dog he was shocked, because every little difference in angle and posture made it look like a new dog!

I believe generalizations make life manageable. But, like all things, it can be overdone.