Sex differences in humor production ability

Other things to think about,

(1) Top of the curves is often all that matters when comparing groups, NOT the medians of the curves — you have to decide whether you’re comparing the (A) median/mean of the groups = almost never a useful measure in practice, or (B) the very top percentile in ability of each groups = what actually matters e.g. when hiring people, e.g. you don’t hire “median” humans to be pilots or surgeons, that would be total insanity, you must higher the best or else disaster = very top of the curves is all that matters when comparing groups by skill, not the median, nearly 100% of the time in practice.

= I.e. often totally irrelevant to all practical needs whether the top people of the group curve outperform the bottom people of the top group — all that often matters in practice who are the top people out of everyone

(2) One tricky part is that humor taste is assortative — dumber people like easier to get jokes, smarter people more like jokes that you need higher-g to fully get

But, ofc these curves probably do overlap, unlike other sex-difference curves that absolutely don’t overlap — But, ofc that’s still totally irrelevant for situations where all that matters is who are the top of all people

Can you very effectively judge individuals by their groups?

— Sometimes yes!

Depends on what part of the curve your judgement is about,

(A) Is this particular man likely funnier than this particular woman, just based on their sex = either may be ANYWHERE on the curve = NO, can’t very effectively predict funniness, moderate at best

vs

(B) is this particular woman among the funniest / strongest / top tennis players in the world = question about the TOP of the curve = YES, you often can EXTREMELY EFFECTIVELY judge claims in the negative, just based on e.g. sex alone, when for questions about the TOP OF THE CURVE, for things where as you go up the overall curve, the male ratio quickly approaches absolute 100% male-domination — that’s just how the math works out

So can you effectively judge individuals’ abilities by their group membership?

— YES extremely well, when talking about very top people (& when the curves of the two groups are separated, which is almost always)

— NO when not talking about the top of the curve, except YES when talking about things where the curves for the 2 groups are totally separated with essentially zero overlap, and there are far more curves like that than you think

Will explain visually later

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These 2 curves have the exact same average/median score on some test, both groups averaging a score of 100

So if were were to assume this is a VERY GOOD test of skill on some job,

And since both groups have IDENTICAL averages,

— Does that mean that mean that both groups should be EQUALLY ACCEPTED at the same rate for a job, if job acceptance was done fairly?

(Ignore all factors not shown in this chart, assume ALL ELSE IS EQUAL between these 2 groups, and the only group differences are what’s shown here in this chart.)

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