Evolving wrote:I was being ironic. As the possessor of a female brain.
Gotcha.
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Evolving wrote:It's sometimes tempting to think that women could do a better job running the world than men have been doing, but I don't think the evidence bears that out. I'm not impressed, for instance, by your first minister.
We should all get a fair chance, that's all.
Btw: I've read a number of posts by you recently that I liked a lot.
EDIT: just remembered that she's not first minister any more. You know who I meant, anyway.
Evolving wrote:I was referring to Arlene Foster.
scott1328 wrote:I think the problem when attempting to compare disjoint groups is the arbitrary nature of the division into the groups.
It seems to me the error comes with the presumption that genetic gender is the correct way to split humans into groups for most if not all types of comparisons.
Much as it is incorrect to use perceived or presumed race to split humans into groups for most if not all types of comparisons.
archibald wrote:That man, the one voice-acted at the start of the radio discussion I posted above, he was the inventor of sociology or something
Hermit wrote:archibald wrote:That man, the one voice-acted at the start of the radio discussion I posted above, he was the inventor of sociology or something
Or something. Gustave Le Bon did write about sociology, beginning in the 1890s. Auguste Comte is regarded as the progenitor of the academic discipline of sociology. He died in 1857. On the strength of originality and innovation Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber are regarded as the founders of the academic discipline of sociology. Le Bon is not so much remembered for originality or innovation in the field than the opinions we now feel to be so outrageous. He was essentially doing not much more than verbosely publishing and promoting personal opinion. As such, he resembles more my personal bête noire, Otto Weininger, than being an actual sociologist. And yes, I have likened Peterson to almost a carbon copy of Weininger in the other thread.
archibald wrote:Perhaps a tad potentially misleading then, to describe him the way he was described in that audio (as 'a founder of social psychology')?
Hermit wrote:archibald wrote:Perhaps a tad potentially misleading then, to describe him the way he was described in that audio (as 'a founder of social psychology')?
While ABC Radio National is the best network in the world, its charter is not to alienate its audience with academically precise minutiae of scholarship. It is, among other things, tasked with making knowledge accessible, and despite repeated attempts by conservative Australian governments we are periodically electing to destroy it, remarkably good at doing exactly that. I find it really easy to forgive its inaccuracies.
Please keep in mind the nature of the links you quote, though. For instance, All in the Mind, the program the podcast has been lifted from, is basically a sort of highbrow version of infotainment, as are most of the others, such as The Science Show, The Law Report, The Philosopher's Zone, more obviously Late Night Live and so forth.
Evolving wrote:It's sometimes tempting to think that women could do a better job running the world than men have been doing, but I don't think the evidence bears that out. I'm not impressed, for instance, by your first minister.
We should all get a fair chance, that's all.
Btw: I've read a number of posts by you recently that I liked a lot.
EDIT: just remembered that she's not first minister any more. You know who I meant, anyway.
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