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4th law of robotics

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6. Nature seems to like the bell-curve
Fri Oct 5, 2012, 11:45 AM
Oct 2012

So for something easy, let's say height, you can find a significant difference in means between men and women. However you will always have outliers: men who are shorter than most women. Or women who are taller than most men.

No description of humans (particularly the multi-factorial and difficult to measure subject of behavior) will ever accurately contain absolutes.

We don't even all have 46 chromosomes. But we can talk in generalities that apply pretty well to the majority of the population with the assumption that there *will* be people who don't fit.

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Comment 3 summed up my reaction. MadrasT Oct 2012 #1
I would say it`s most likely a combination of innate qand learned. opiate69 Oct 2012 #2
Some humans tried this experiment quite deliberately 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #3
Interesting thing with the Kibbutz. MadrasT Oct 2012 #5
Nature seems to like the bell-curve 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #6
"But which came first?" lumberjack_jeff Oct 2012 #8
A distinction without a difference. lumberjack_jeff Oct 2012 #7
I personally do think there are a lot of gender-type behaviors that are innate. Warren DeMontague Oct 2012 #10
" . . . unlike today" 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #12
It was just a goofy fucking thing to say. Warren DeMontague Oct 2012 #13
Don't know much biology... rrneck Oct 2012 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author eek MD Oct 2012 #9
Every good study has outliers . . . 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #11
I have my own anecdote... TreasonousBastard Oct 2012 #14
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