| dsgrue3 said: Facts are unbiased. No racism. Just like it isn't sexist for me to say that intelligent males outnumber intelligent females. This is a fact of life and devoid of any partiality or opinion. |
If only things were that simple...
There's a couple of enormous leaps I knowingly made there that I'm gonna have to go back to now that someone's given me such a straight answer without even hesitating.
Let's take your example. You say that the number of intelligent males is greater than the number of intelligent females. What has led you to this conclusion? If it is at all related to what you've experienced in life, we can immediately rule out impartiality since you could easily have had a biased sample in your life. In fact, if, in life, you've actually seen that there are more smart males than females, there's a strong argument to be made for the fact that you're subconsciously more likely to believe any study or statistic showing that there are more smart males and that you'd more easily discard counterarguments such as environmental factors.
The only way you'd know for sure that there are more smart males is if you counted them individually. Since I know you haven't done that, you're either going on personal experience or some statistic you got somewhere. The first one is evidently flawed. For the second, you'd need to make an argument as to why your source is more reliable than, say, Women's #1 "Men are Morons" magazine. And if you have to make this kind of argument, I hope you can realize that you're treading on subjective grounds and a relatively grey area, which means that there are no clear-cut for-sure facts anywhere.
“These are my principles; if you don’t like them, I have others.” – Groucho Marx
