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My takeaway is both programmers and serial killers look like regular people (and have some unflattering photos). The bias that you can tell killers apart by what they look like is created by the media, who probably choose sinister-looking photos when reporting on murderers.
"The face of crime", face shape theory, originated around Lombroso: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso
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it's also statistically unlikely for females to be serial killers as well.
It's also statistically unlikely for males to be serial killers as well.
It is statistically unlikely for a male to be a serial killer, but it is statistically likely for a serial killer to be male.
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I'm sorry I gave you the benefit of the doubt. I shouldn't take the bait but, hey, you played a GAME that was structured such that you'd have a 50/50 shot of being right. Rather than assume that the balance of demographics in the photos were waited towards that game's premise, 50/50 split, you used your own biased heuristic and happened to get a good score. You happened to get a set of 10 that included no female lang…
>I'm sorry I gave you the benefit of the doubt. This is basically your way of saying that my viewpoint is sexist. I have not acted in such a manner, and please cite evidence as to where I am acting that way if you believe otherwise. Basically all I'm saying is that people should stop turning every freaking conversation about real demographic differences into an ideological witch hunt. It's completely off topic and no…
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>I'm sorry I gave you the benefit of the doubt. This is basically your way of saying that my viewpoint is sexist. I have not acted in such a manner, and please cite evidence as to where I am acting that way if you believe otherwise. Basically all I'm saying is that people should stop turning every freaking conversation about real demographic differences into an ideological witch hunt. It's completely off topic and no…
I'll confess I possibly misread your initial post. Were you saying your score would have been higher if you hadn't picked serial killer for both women?
A similar game is Quant Fund or Metal Band: http://www.quantfundormetalband.com/ My score there was only slightly better than on Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer.
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Camille Paglia (feminist academic, professor) has written and lectured about why that is. She has a famous line: "There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper."
People need to balance there weaknesses with strengths. Just because one demographic is weak at something doesn't mean they're strong in another. While intuitively I agree that what Camile Pagila says makes sense, there is no definitive evidence that was causes men to more likely be serial killers is what causes men to more likely be geniuses. Scientifically we still need to entertain the possibility that women aren'…
According to Wikipedia, that is false. There are more serial killers that are white in the US, but based on percentages of the U.S. population, whites are not more likely than other races to be serial killers.
My takeaway is both programmers and serial killers look like regular people (and have some unflattering photos). The bias that you can tell killers apart by what they look like is created by the media, who probably choose sinister-looking photos when reporting on murderers.
I find that, ironically, a great deal of advice given to people on how to “be safe” is very counter-effective, for it inspires within them the mistaken confidence that they can easily recognize who is dangerous, and are thus more likely to drop their guard when such recognition yields a false negative. I also recently saw a comment on a forum along the lines of “ If Hollywood started to consistently cast beautiful pe…
Probably because a biography of Patricia Highsmith just came out, my first thought was of the movie The Talented Mr. Ripley. Matt Damon played Ripley.