praha14 · HackerTrans

I've always wondered, we know that testosterone levels have an effect on people's behavior, preferences, and disposition. We know that men and women have, on average, different levels of testosterone. Yet we know that men and women do not differ on average behavior, preferences, or disposition; that the two groups are equal. How is that possible? It seems like a shockingly simple line of logic to me but it must break down somewhere.

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>Statistics have a well-known liberal bias.

Especially FBI crime statistics.

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Who’s an example?

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I don’t think it’s remotely controversial that most violence is committed by young men. Most people in the world and in history would laugh at me for stating this, it’s so obvious.

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How can it be freedom? They don’t have a living wage, healthcare, education, etc- none of the things we consider necessary to be free.

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I live in a van where my total expenses amount to $100/month; I quit my job the day I had accumulated enough savings to sustain this lifestyle indefinitely.

The amount of money that is worth giving up 5/7ths of your life is somewhere in the tens of millions.

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I understand the argument that, once free from work, a number of people will voluntarily choose to work as physicists or playwrights or mathematicians.

What I haven’t understood, though, is why someone would choose to work as a bricklayer or spend their 20s sitting in a fluorescent office designing an industrial process to make ball-bearing lubricant 0.4% more efficient. It’s that sort of menial, unglamorous labor that our society and quality of life is built on.

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It’s vastly different in Western countries. I’ve hooked up with girls from Tinder and have brought girls from parties or bars, but have never been on a date. Most people I (a 22 year old) know are the same way.

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Why does trying to get laid make one a dickhead? This is slut-shaming.

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Of course, Scandanavian countries have both of those things without being diverse.

In some sense, high-quality public services have only been observed in non-diverse countries.

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I feel like I got left behind in 2010 when our attitude about Russia was, “Russia? What are you, in the ‘80s? They’re a decrepit machine running on fumes”.

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Isn't Finland almost entirely white whereas California is predominantly Hispanic? That seems like an obvious first place to look. It could be the case that the distribution of time-preference, social trust, IQ, or any of the other factors that correlate with homelessness differs among ethnicities.

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The MTA, like most city's public transportation administration, is predominantly staffed by people of color- the DC metro is a whopping 97%. These serve the dual-role as a jobs program, and as such can't be held to the same standard as you see in white countries. Just think, would you be the one to tell a group of black people that their cultural values [1] regarding timeliness, service, and so on are incorrect? Of course not, nobody would, which is why we will continue to have a metro system that embodies those values.

1. https://www.minnpost.com/good-jobs/2017/01/metro-transit-has...

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I'm not asking that.

I often see the fact that people of color are overrepresented in the prison system presented as an example of their marginalization. If overrepresentation in prison is an example of marginalization, then it seems contradictory to say that overrepresentation of men in prison is not a first-rate issue because they are not marginalized.

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Isn't overrepresentation in the prison system an instance of marginalization? I often hear as cited as such regarding people of color.

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Southern states are the most predominately black states in the country. Are you sure you want to bring this up?

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1. Of course not, I referenced unintelligent wealthy people ("dumb nobility") in my post.

2. 70% of rich families lose their wealth by the second generation, 90% by the third. [A]

3. IQ is a greater predictor of income than parental SES. Someone in the 95th percentile for IQ has a higher EV for earnings than someone born into the 95th percentile for wealth.

4. A number of revolutions have happened. If you don't believe that modern France or Japan are freer than their feudal predecessors then I agree that we are probably not on the same page.

A. http://time.com/money/3925308/rich-families-lose-wealth/

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1. No of course not, but if it's a factor at all we'd expect to see the pattern I described.

2. We're talking about social mobility, not the level of inequality.

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One thing I've never understood- in a fair society in which people are not artificially limited, wouldn't we expect social mobility to decrease over time as successive generations "sort" themselves into the spots allowed by their genetics?

Let's say we've got a feudal society with dumb nobility that rules over a smart peasantry by force. If that society becomes free, we'll expect smart peasants to move up and dumb noblemen to move down across the first few generations... but once they've moved, they've moved. Ergo, declining social mobility.

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