Nothing the DNC did torpedoed Sanders. He was losing before the DNC even started talking smack about him. While reprehensible, none of the DNC’s talk/actions amounted to any “fixing” or substantial influence of the result. Hillary won the majority of primary voters in 2008, but lost in the delegate system with…
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This. Women can have great shooting ability and court sense, but get physically dominated in other parts of the game co-ed.
With the best HS players in a large region, probably. But not like, any HS team. I’ve seen a top Pac-12 point guard have her way on the court with top Seattle-area HS mens players while they were training over the summer. What she lacked athletically she made up for with court sense and knowing the game. A saw a guy…
Not sure where you are getting your population statistics from. I’ve seen a range of estimates for population, sometimes with more MTFs but never more than double let alone “overwhelming”. Anecdotally, the FTM peer group is just as big as the MTF peer group at my local LGBT community center. Maybe you are sensing an…
Transguy here. I second that. There might be slightly more transwomen, but it’s a very hard population to measure.
I think that’s very complicated. Mental illness is stigmatized in the general population to a point where it’s hard to discuss it in reference to policy outside of the mental care and medical communities. Most mental health practitioners that work with LGBT clients believe stigma is likely the cause of the disparity…
I bet these people are really upset Jesus is often depicted as white and Buddha as east asian.
I go by Papa. In my defense I went by Mama to my 1 year old daughter before I transitioned to living as a man. (My wife preferred ‘Mommy’ and since she was birthing, she got first dibs.) Going from Mama to Papa just made a lot of sense because they are relative terms and sound more similar than jumping to Daddy. But…
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He kind of smack-talked Silver n academic-ese for having such an uncertain model prediction a week before the election though. Should he continue to model, sure. But I think he deserves some skepticism and smack-talk back his way.
As a trans person who is somebody’s child, thanks for being supportive. Hope and grief are a natural part of any transition. I’m glad you’ve been able to find space for both.
Yeah, humans are generally bad at understanding probability and assessing risk. They conflate percentage of predicted vote with percentage chance of winning. Many people probably thought 538 was saying it would be a 70-30 landslide.
Yeah, that’s not the job of a probabilistic modeler. You want an oracle.
Let’s say you wanted to know which halloween candy somebody preferred, snickers or candy corn? You went and asked 30 people, most said they were too busy to answer, but 10 stopped to talk to you. You found out 8 of 10 people like snickers. You predict 80% of people liked snickers (they ask more people in practice, but…
If a doctor said we need more tests. While this test looks good, I’d still give you a 33% chance of cancer. If in the next test confirmed you had cancer, would you call your doctor a quack? Tell him he widely missed the mark? Gave you a false sense of certainty?
Eh, it’s all contextual. You are right, those girls have only cushy career paths ahead of them. However, despite their careers and elite status they will still be racial profiled in stores. That is something you will never experience like a black woman. It even happens to Oprah.
There are actual people that couldn’t get away with being such a jerk even under the delusion it increased your odds. Women. Black men. But what does that even mean having #checkyourprivledge thrown by a 30-something, fully-able, likely-cis, full-beard-sporting white guy. More like #checkoutprivledge.
Ahhhh....isn’t a large refrain from this whole thread about raising our sons better? But as soon as somebody does, you get all pissy. There are good things that come from same-gender friendships, sisterhood/brotherhood. Yes, there is a problem with misogynistic men, and that’s compounded when they are in groups and/or…