Re:The power of role models
by tptacek on Saturday February 25, 2017 @03:20PM
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No part of this engages with my comment. You can't convincingly dismiss the entire class of arguments about how "merit" is evaluated as facially absurd, unless your definition of "merit" is "whatever produces the set of circumstances we're currently living in now". Arguments of that form have a name; they're called "the just-world fallacy".
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>No part of this engages with my comment.
He was contriving to engage with it; you should be less brief/concise with your talk about priors and premises in this thread.
If you understood it as responsive to my comment, can you explain to me how it was? I'd like to understand it better.
Well, in the absence of your followup post, your second line about priors could just be interpreted as 'redefine merit to include being female'. Of course that isn't what you meant about changing priors, and I'll be honest, I've been drinking but be more user-friendly :)