I realized a long time ago that outsized importance was being given to variables that are easily observable (gender, chronological age being two). Just because these are quickly knowable doesn’t mean they are necessarily overly significant.
I realized a long time ago that outsized importance was being given to variables that are easily observable (gender, chronological age being two). Just because these are quickly knowable doesn’t mean they are necessarily overly significant.
If I may suggest a clarification: the problem is that, for whatever motives, we are increasingly asked, nay, demanded to "believe" some new dogma that is at odds not merely with social conventions but often with objective reality. For example, that a man becomes a woman simply by changing his attire (but he shows special devotion to the cause if he gets himself castrated, has implants in his chest, and takes hormones). The variables may not be significant, but I'd argue, the problem is it's being demanded of people to read those variables' values as being other than what they are. The fundamental issue is we are denying reality: 2+2 still equal 4, even if the Mathematician's Guild's now claims that was a remnant of White Supremacy and that for equity's sake, the correct value is 5. And even if you cancel their Twitter or Facebook account, get them dismissed from the faculty, have their papers retracted, and perhaps have them haulled off in boxcars, it doesn't change the fact that, at the end of the day, that 2+2=4.
I realized a long time ago that outsized importance was being given to variables that are easily observable (gender, chronological age being two). Just because these are quickly knowable doesn’t mean they are necessarily overly significant.
If I may suggest a clarification: the problem is that, for whatever motives, we are increasingly asked, nay, demanded to "believe" some new dogma that is at odds not merely with social conventions but often with objective reality. For example, that a man becomes a woman simply by changing his attire (but he shows special devotion to the cause if he gets himself castrated, has implants in his chest, and takes hormones). The variables may not be significant, but I'd argue, the problem is it's being demanded of people to read those variables' values as being other than what they are. The fundamental issue is we are denying reality: 2+2 still equal 4, even if the Mathematician's Guild's now claims that was a remnant of White Supremacy and that for equity's sake, the correct value is 5. And even if you cancel their Twitter or Facebook account, get them dismissed from the faculty, have their papers retracted, and perhaps have them haulled off in boxcars, it doesn't change the fact that, at the end of the day, that 2+2=4.