Oddbean new post about login | logout Is there a name for what I'm going to call Approach 1 and Approach 2 below? An example of Approach 1 is in the screenshots below: Say you're a white guy and look around and notice that the activities you do are full of other white guys. You then think of some property of the activities that you do, e.g., they're non-conformist and conclude that women and black people don't do non-conformist activities and then google for some random studies that seem to confirm this. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/071/403/001/023/368/original/95067efaf68d088c.png https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/071/403/269/037/737/original/843120bc87f31209.png https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/071/403/510/583/195/original/3422ff942c117027.png https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/071/403/746/518/133/original/e9ae342461f1e16e.png
With Approach 2, you would look at what activities white dudes do and compare these activities to what black people and women do and then try to figure out what the differences are. For example, if you do west coast swing dance and notice that it's very white/asian, you might ask the black folks you see where else black people dance, get an invite to go Chicago stepping, where you'll notice that you're the only non-black person in the room who isn't the significant other of a black person.
@ed709062 this is me with my hobbies, it affects my life. Because people think you can't do snowboarding.
