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> Get unlimited access to data science stories from industry leaders on Medium. cant read this article without "upgrading". no i dont want to "upgrade". can we downrank Medium until they stop doing bullshit like this? (yes towardsdatascience is a well known data publication, would love to push them gently into moving off medium)
Regarding hot/crazy: if you try dating in a heavily fished (heavily sorted) environment like online dating, a person of modest looks (me) is likely to meet highly attractive persons only if they have some flaw that keeps them ‘in circulation’ On the other hand, meeting more attractive persons in real life proved much less biased. YMMV All that said, very attractive persons can go a little crazy from the stares and cl…
> So don’t do those things its not nice Advice like this makes the situation worse, because nice people will take your advice and not approach extremely attractive women, because they understand it is the nice thing to do, but assholes will approach extremely attractive women, because they don't care about being nice. So these women end up only being approached by bad actors.
The phenomenon described in the article is well known as "Berkson's paradox": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
Seems to be what's affecting women most of the time. "You can't be hot and a security specialist!" Just because the average women takes more care of herself than the average man.
I wonder if very beautiful people are more prone to diseases, or to some other evolutionarily negative trait that compensates for its beauty. Otherwise, why isn’t everyone beautiful?
An example I like is in basketball. A lot of tall players aren't good shooters. People wonder why, like are they launching the ball too high and messing up the angle? Are their hands too big to precisely control the ball? Are they lazy and not practicing? Seems more likely to be this same paradox - if you're short and can't shoot, you never make it to the NBA.
I think your example is closer to a survivor bias, while the article describes more of a collider bias. Survivor bias arises when you study what you think is a full population, while in fact you're looking at a selected sample that did survive the very thing you're studying. A classical example in finance happens when you want to study, say, the performance of tech companies over the last 10 years. If you just pick c…
"Survivorship" is the collider being conditioned on.
Not great examples. Source #1 (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/well/move/how-exercise-ma...) says "And of course, mice are not people, and it is impossible to know if the same changes occur in our synapses when we exercise." and source #2 (https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-do-smart-pe...) says that smart people tend to live longer and they list several reasons for that including a lower accident and homicide rates. One contributing factor was that smart people are less likely to have certain health problems like high blood pressure and cholesterol that can kill people later in life. It's a big leap from that to smart people are healthier.
Same with the dating situation. Must be more comforting to think "I'm not the most attractive person ever, but at least I'm sane and many of the more attractive people aren't" rather than "There are probably people out there who are both more attractive and with a nicer personality".
I also suspect people tend to think everything in life must have tradeoffs, D&D character points style. Like, you have X points to go around in total and if a percentage of that goes to intelligence/skill, there must be very little left over to put into charisma.
You can see that a lot in films and TV shows, where being popular or attractive is often treated as if it's incompatible with being intelligent or a nice person. But that's not reality, and some intelligent/attractive people are also perfectly nice, sane people.
> as exercise is a nootropic and smart people are healthier. Not great examples. Source #1 ( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/well/move/how-exercise-ma... ) says "And of course, mice are not people, and it is impossible to know if the same changes occur in our synapses when we exercise." and source #2 ( https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-do-smart-pe... ) says that smart people tend to live longer and…
The population of everyone without Down syndrome is both smarter and healthier than the total population. That extends to things we don’t think of as lowering intelligence like high blood pressure: https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/high-blood-pressure-linked-cogn...
The phenomenon described in the article is well known as "Berkson's paradox": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox