I don't know
by Leah Hager Cohen · first published 2013
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In a tight, enlightening narrative, Leah Hager Cohen explores why, so often, we attempt to hide our ignorance, and why, in so many different areas, we would be better off coming clean. Weaving entertaining, anecdotal reporting with eye-opening research, she considers both the ramifications of and alternatives to this ubiquitous habit in arenas as varied as education, finance, medicine, politics, warfare, trial courts, and climate change. But it's more than just encouraging readers to confess their ignorance--Cohen proposes that we have much to gain by embracing uncertainty. Three little words
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…them I have. """If you treat "men" one way and "women" a different way, then that is a problem, because you're treating them like a homogenous block, rather than individuals.""" I don't treat people I don't know as individuals. It's an evolutionary thing, we progressed by matching patterns and assigning things to GENERAL categories. Treating things individually comes much later. Here's how Nietchze puts it in…
on “Oh my god, it's a girl -- thoughts on gender imbalance on HN” ↗…really interesting, dred, but how do you translate that to online communities, especially those for which locality and location are not central elements, as they are for brick-and-mortar institutions. I don't know, though ... I've been pondering just that for a decade or so. The insight does suggest a few solution-shaped objects and/or characteristics, however: - A key failing of venerable fora is that the membership…
on “Reddit is Fun will shut down on June 30th in response to Reddit API changes” ↗