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Originally Posted by Usually Lurkin
If you know only 1 thing about 4 different people:
1 is a man
1 a woman
1 a rich person
1 a poor person
Betting that the man is the criminal is the safest bet.
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Stereotypes have nothing to do with motivation - why is that so difficult for you to grasp?
(thank god our laws aren't based on your "betting man" mentality...)
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Originally Posted by Usually Lurkin
I don't know why it's so hard to say, "my ideas cannot explain the data."
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Or better yet - "the data has nothing to do with the ideas I'm expressing because the whole point of this thread is to discover the MOTIVES behind the data"... I don't know why you're trying to use these numbers to predict human behavior (that's the inherent folly of stereotypes!)
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Originally Posted by Usually Lurkin
A spaghetti monsterist might say that men were created with a fork in one hand and a can of Parmesan in the other. Neither would explain why all the people on the list posted above (fare dodgers and traffic violators) are there, let alone why the demographics of such lists are as they are.
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And penises do?
I'm glad it's so simple - I'll keep my guard up around men from now on (my boss might try to shiv me at work tomorrow because he's a man... Numbers don't lie!)
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Originally Posted by Usually Lurkin
That's funny cause just a few posts ago you were saying that people were wrong for trying to turn it into a discussion about race. (and race is largely biological; and sex (gender, anyway) is partly social).
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I didn't mean that I'm interested in supporting the racial angle of this discussion - I meant that I'm interested in hearing more from the people who were discussing race before you hijacked this thread with your gender angle... At least the gray area of "culture" makes the topic of race more open to discussion and debate (and the issue of wealth is even more fertile...)
Frankly, I think this thread got a lot weaker as soon as you & I decided to dance circles - hell, I'm embarrassed to admit that even 92bDad managed to stay on topic better than we did...