Change, Technically - Math is for girls

chealion@chealion.ca (Micheal Jones) — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:22:27 +0000

Change, Technically - Math is for girls

a form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two positions that share similarities: one modest and easy to defend (the “motte”) and one much more controversial and harder to defend (the “bailey”)

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I think he even said to me, I don’t want to believe that this is true, but it’s like pages and pages of evidence. And to me, of course, I was like, 0 my gosh, you think that’s pages of evidence? I have evidence from 1000000s of students and years of work comparing culture and years of education that says the opposite, but of course, you don’t know that. And to you, this small, tiny, sort of distorted, weird study that’s actually crappy evidence looks super impressive. But you don’t know how rigorous and great all the research is on our side and on the side of, you know, appreciating the diversity of human potential.

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Change, Technically - Math is for girls

Change, Technically - Math is for girls