1.Background selection on the Y chromosome can influence levels of NRY diversity in human populations. 2. Sample sizes are very small with high variab...
OK, so what would you call one organised ethnic group dominating ethnic minorities, but without a supporting ideology? What is it you're imagining con...
Rarely. We usually use students! Which would be a theory of psychology, so we'll just presume it'll become obsolete soon as fashion changes, yes? Good...
Yeah, a shockingly poor argument from here. Psychology is not a science. Some psychologists do practice scientific methods sometimes. But when they do...
True, but it always strikes me as a bit odd that people don't include any self-reflection in that. Or maybe they do and society is even more of a trai...
Well then I should put in a call to Edinburgh University immediately, they'll be dismayed to learn of the imposters they have as the emeritus professo...
Yeah, I see that. Really so long as overt comments about proof and disproof are avoided, it's all on the table. So the question is why anyone would fa...
No. Your stats are just shit. https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pinker.pdf Exactly. As evidenced by this thread. Five citations indicating a natural ...
Yes, but, to be fair, you dropped responding to the points raised in your misgendering thread and opened a new one instead trying to name the fallacy ...
I don't think this is true. Not allowing oneself to be complicit in causing harm is a habit worth cultivating regardless of the (potentially limited) ...
When you're older you'll realise that naming fallacies is just a lazy way of avoiding having to counter difficult arguments. If "you're too young to u...
Yes, I suspect it's just more commercially benficial to give the impression that individuality can be built through social media conducive symbols rat...
I think it's a generational thing. There's a strong trend these days toward individualism and controlling one's identity in society is part of that, t...
To what is 'the subject' the exception? It's as if you're responding to someone else's posts. I haven't said anything to which "...except for the subj...
Nope. Could not make head nor tail of any of that. If English is your second language we could try to draw out what you're trying to say, if not, it's...
Well that's reassuring. Pretty damning of my own intellect (or morals, depending on how charitable you're feeling), but at least everyone else is fine...
Yeah. I'm not sure if I'm the one who's missed the point or if everyone else has, but there's loads of discussion above about improving quality (and w...
I don't understand. If... ...then how come... ...? How can one be born as a particular social construct? If a baby is born as a particular social cons...
Oh I definitely give a fuck about the loss of focus. The shift in the 'big issues' of the day from third-world poverty to first-world individualism is...
No. This is what young people suffering looks like. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.uBiAx...
You're treating the issue as if it were a matter of naming, it's not, it's a matter of method. Old folk like me have had upwards of fifty years practi...
If it tracks well, then comments and replies would be sufficient metrics (which we already have). @"jamalrob". Strikes me the question is quite easily...
I quite like it, it adds another element to the people-watching. Not sure how it will achieve anything desirable though. Presuming there'd be a motiva...
We're going round in pointless circles as you keep conceding points and then raising them again a few posts later as if nothing had been said on the m...
Because, without begging the question, the definition of an A could be that it is sufficiently similar to all other As. The definition of a universal ...
I don't. Scientific judgements are a sub category of such inferences which can be supported in a particular way (mainly testable empirical evidence). ...
I see, now it makes sense. There's been a lot of confusion about what's at issue. In order to necessitate a separate existence (substance or property ...
It's not a seeming contradiction. There definitely are multiple, slightly different 'A's. Hopefully no one is mad enough to dispute that. Here's one A...
Well then we'd have multiple, slightly differing universals, a definitional contradiction. Why are you insisting on redefining 'universal' to make the...
Yes, absolutely. And it permeates even through to psychology. You'd be shocked (or perhaps not) at the extreme resistance to experiential models of ex...
Why would that be a problem for science? I use my a priori methods of inference to model these a priori methods of inference as being neural networks....
I don't see anyone yet disagreeing with this. The disagreement is over the existence of actual universals, not over things which are nearly, or quite ...
What we're in the business of doing when we have 'ideas' is the modelling of the hidden states we assume are causal in respect to our sensations. Tria...
Right. and yet your definition stipulated straight edges. As above. But non-eucledian triangles are still called triangles. As are triangles in non-st...
It's notable how often you reach for the "you don't understand the philosophy" argument when disagreeing with those who've not read the same texts as ...
This is fun, more distraction from actual work, so thanks for pointing it out. I'm stuck on 2.8 though, I can't get the 3E solution. One element has t...
This is all fair enough, but the matter at hand is the existence of non-physical objects. The key factor here is that nominalism allows for each of th...
Yeah, it does look crazy the way I've written it! The figures I quoted were from memory from a paper out of the Max Plank Institute from several years...
I have no idea what you mean by this. You said... Which is precisely what I've been saying (and you've been arguing against) all along. Same's true of...
So it's being on a plane is not a property of your ideal triangle? Would a non-euclidean object with those properties still be a triangle? What about ...
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