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by kbelder 1846 days ago
Is it false? Doesn't seem like something he would assert without a cite.
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ackfoobar 1846 days ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149680/

Male: 2.68 SD: 0.65

Female: 2.94 SD:0.67

d: 0.39

Non-native English user here, it seems the word "neurotic" has some connotation that the trait "neuroticism" doesn't? And that's why it's received so poorly?

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sanity31415 1846 days ago
"Neurotic" does have a negative connotation in common usage, but it's also the term used by personality psychologists, it's the 'N' in the OCEAN personality model. It means "risk averse".
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ackfoobar 1845 days ago
"Educate yourself" is often thrown by the left in heated conversations.

But when a academic term (that is closely related to a negative word) is used, some on the same side refuse to understand and get butthurt instead.

E.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23122068

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throwawaygh 1846 days ago
> Is it false?

Within the context in which the claim was made, it's "not even wrong". Lots of the claims in the Damore memo are similarly better to characterize as "not even wrong" rather than "false".

> Doesn't seem like something he would assert without a cite.

I can find a cite for literally anything.

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austhrow743 1846 days ago
Entirely irrelevant to the topic at hand, but afaik no.
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