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Re:Dispelling myths about the autistic programmer by cmdrfred on Saturday July 09, 2016 @01:44PM (#12062441)
> I can say that almost all rapists are men. Obviously that doesn't mean that all men are rapists, it means that the probability that a given rapist is a man is very high.

You can't determine the probability of an individual like that, at least without more data. I can say that almost all the people who contract HIV are african american or men who have sex with men, that does not mean that the probability of any given homosexual or black person having HIV is high (greater than 50%). The vast majority of men have never raped a woman and will never rape a woman.

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Re:Dispelling myths about the autistic programmer by jacoblambda on Saturday July 09, 2016 @01:54PM (#12062494)
...That is literally what he just said.
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Re:Dispelling myths about the autistic programmer by SiVal on Saturday July 09, 2016 @04:38PM (#12063212)
And this error is ironically an illustration of the exact problem he was commenting on: our brains tend to work by association, and implication (A implies B) tends to be interpreted as association (A implies B means A and B are associated, which means they go together, so A implies B is a way to say B implies A).
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Re:Dispelling myths about the autistic programmer by groovy2shoes on Saturday July 09, 2016 @10:15PM (#12064266)
Ah, good ol' modus moron, as Angelo Margaris's "First Order Mathematical Logic" calls affirming the consequent.
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