Comments on: Gender differences get all the hype http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/27/gender-differences-get-all-the-hype/ Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:59:08 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Nathanael Nerode http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/27/gender-differences-get-all-the-hype/comment-page-1/#comment-869 Nathanael Nerode Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:53:09 +0000 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/27/gender-differences-get-all-the-hype/#comment-869 Yeah, this drives me nuts. A study which reports "on average, men are .00001% more likely than women to have X mental trait" becomes a big deal in the media, despite being essentially meaningless. Then they go and make airbags which kill short women because they're calibrated for very large men who don't wear seatbelts. Yeah, this drives me nuts. A study which reports “on average, men are .00001% more likely than women to have X mental trait” becomes a big deal in the media, despite being essentially meaningless.

Then they go and make airbags which kill short women because they’re calibrated for very large men who don’t wear seatbelts.

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