[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"Gregory Maxwell" wrote

> A side effect of NOR is that completely disinterested parties should
> be able to do a job of similar quality to our interested writers,
> although perhaps with a somewhat greater expenditure of energy.

Yeah, well, that's only true 'on paper'. It would be useful to have a name for the fallacy involved: it's 'nominalism' or 'the minus oneth law of thermodynamics' (empathy never needs to increase at all). Or something.

When I write about mathematics, I do have a reasonably full range of insights; when I write about poetry, not. Does it make a difference? Undoubtedly. I can do better dropping a bit of history and context into mathematical articles, because I have some gut feeling about it all. NOR is (under the current and basically philistine reading) supposed to stop me putting spin in when I do that. OK, but that assumes I forget NPOV, and I think I don't.

Charles

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