What's the basis for saying this? It seems generally accepted, but do we know it's true?
I only know what I have been told when I've come across similar questions. That the majority of people pick option 2(or whatever option has the extra information). But I've never done the experiment myself or seen any hard facts to support this, so no, I can't prove it.
I wouldn't even know where to look to try to find data on these types of questions.
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quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: One can be a feminist and yet not a "radical feminist".
Naaaa. That's impossible. In fact adding radical is not necessary since all feminists are radicals.
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Perhaps in the common usage, but academically speaking "radical feminism" is one of many different feminist schools including "liberal feminism", "marxist feminism", "eco-feminism", "postmodernist feminism" and many others.
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quote:Originally posted by katharina: I've seen that, but I've seen it differently.
What if I told you that Anna:
a) Majored in English literature. b) Is 35 years old. c) Has had poetry published. d) Subscribes to American Poetry Review.
Now, which of the two following statements is more probably true?
1. Anna is an English professor at an Ivy-league university. 2. Anna is a truck driver.
I'd probably answer 1. I can't see why 2 would be at all more likely given the limited information available.
Well there are only 8 schools in the Ivy League. I just checked and Harvard has 16 women English professors. By extrapolation I'd estimate that there are only about 120 women English professors at Ivy League schools in the world.
In contrast, there are an estimate 3.2 million truck drivers in the US, about 5% of whom are women and about 30% of whom have some college education.
So as a rought estimate there are around 50,000 college educated women truck drivers in the US.
So given the limited information available, I think its far more likely that the woman is one of the ~50,000 college educated women truck drivers than one of the 120 Ivy league women English professors.
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