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Definitely made me do a double take there.

Buy him out, boys!

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The word ‘monosyllabic’ isn’t monosyllabic.

The word ‘alphabetic’ isn’t alphabetic.

The word ‘palindrome’ isn’t a palindrome.

Checkmate, managers

There’s this worry that high intelligence itself drives you to be more dismissive of other people. I don’t really think that’s the case. I think intelligence can help you understand and sympathize better with other people.

Anyway, if you go by IQ, the upper one percentile score about 135 or higher, so that’s where your dividing line would be in raw numbers.

But since intelligence is distributed in a continuum, it wouldn’t make sense for everyone at or above 135 to consider everyone else equally ‘dumb’ - even if they did choose to use the IQ-scale to gauge everyone’s ‘stupidity’.

To do so would be like you getting first place in a spelling contest by a single point and then concluding that the person in second place (and everyone following) must be completely illiterate.

All that being said, the one percent really are very far from average. One way of putting it is that these people are further from the average than average people are from the ‘extremely low’ range (>69).

Think of hydrogen-power as more of a battery.

Batteries have to be charged with energy from an energy source. And hydrogen has to be produced with energy from an energy source.

Honestly seems like a good question for chatGPT (is this frowned upon? —edit: yes ):

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You may have proven that men have an advantage in the average case due to inherent misogyny

I haven’t, because those numbers themselves can’t prove that.

What they can tell you is that any individual woman playing chess at high levels is vastly outnumbered by men. All things being equal, that also makes women much less likely to win tournament titles (or even qualify for tournaments), if no titles or tournaments do anything to compensate. The result would be that women are likely to become invisible whenever you watch any sort of ‘high level’ chess – and that can have consequences reinforcing the underlying issue.

The commenter I replied to theorised that the underlying motivation for having ‘gender segregated’ (which in reality equates to female-exclusive) titles was a fear of women winning. In fact, the opposite seems to be the case. That’s what my argument adresses – not the trans issue.

I can’t imagine you’ve seen the numbers. Currently the number of fide grand masters totals 1772 men and 41 women. At the rank below, international masters, the numbers are 3893 men and 134 women.

If you were to simply remove titles exclusive to women tomorrow, you would be barring many more women from ever being able to call themselves ‘champion’. How do you imagine that would impact young girls’ willingness to dedicate themselves to the game?

Remember that even if men are at an advantage for strictly cultural reasons (being more encouraged to play the game) that still means they have an advantage.