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Dunning-Kruger (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I hope this criticism is valid :
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/ and
https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2023/05/09/debunking_the_dunning-kruger_effect_898340.html!
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There is a "people think they are better than average" rule, rather than whatever Dunning-Kreuger suggested.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One time a woman told me that my lack of a second X Chromosome meant I would "always be a man"

So I gaslit her into thinking her husband had klinefelters.

I hate how Republicans think transphobia is science

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cis men and women? How does that work? Does he mean in the womb? I thought the entire problem was that trans surgery was never quite good enough to make you truly male or female.

Ngl, even if I'm more than fine with my gender, we where all curious what it's like to be the other gender, so if you could do it at a press of a button...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He’s referring to medical conditions where XY people are born female or XX people are born male.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (13 children)

I think a lot of these XX XY "only two genders" people aren't just dunning Kruger, they're transphobic idiots with an agenda. So even if they had the science and knowledge it wouldn't matter because they're pushing their hateful stupid agenda, facts and logic be damned. They don't care, they just want to rationalize hating us trans people because we make them uncomfy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Is there some third gender that trans people can transition to that I'm unaware of? I'm afraid I don't follow the whole situation all too well sorry. My partner has some transgender family members, but i've never i've seen anyone that isn't male to female or female to male. I guess non binary exists, but doesn't that mean no gender or both?

I'm afraid I don't know much on the subject It's unfortunate.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

You're confusing sex with gender. Both are a spectrum but sex is a biological spectrum of sexual organs in a living creature and gender is a quality, projection and performance of a person that also lands on a spectrum.

The confusion is because they both use male and female but sex and gender are different things. Gender can change throughout a person's life. A person's sex is consistent throughout life and can't be changed. A person's gender can't change their sex. Sex also isn't as simple as xx is female and xy is male, there's a whole bunch of things that can't put a person in one, both, or none of those categories. Gender is even more complicated.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I would honestly be very surprised if any Republican politicians actually care about sex or gender. I think they're just evil and those are convenient issues to divide the working class. When you don't have popular policy in real issues, you need to make up some fake ones to get people to still support you.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

What really bothers me is that they seem to be winning on the "Trans Sports" issues which sucks, it's such a blatant distraction that I'd let them just "have that", but... you know damn well that's the floor and not the ceiling, and even then their wins are based on lies.

There are less trans athletes in the world then there are kids with measles in Texas, but the Right would have you believe ever Macho Man Randy Savage type is getting into sports and just blowing records clean away. Hence the push to "Ban transwomen and revoke their records"

What records? Even Lia Thomas, the closest they've gotten to finding an "Evil Cheating Trans!!1111" only came in 4th place....

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

The current moral panic about queer people is definitely manufactured, but the hatred that it's stirred up is still real. All the religious psychos in power (including Speaker of the House Mike Johnson) really believe that stuff and want to enforce their hierarchy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. They just don't care. They're not necessarily ignorant and participating in good faith.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

They're guaranteed to not be participating in good faith if they're angrily debating sex and gender like that.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Yeah but science can be proven wrong an change over time, while my beliefs and biases are forever!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Bayesian updating converges, surprisingly, to that idiot’s belief system.

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