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+Title: The Reverse Murray Rule
+Date: 2020-01-01
+Category: other
+Tags: Charles Murray
+Status: draft
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+> As always, I adhere to the Murray Rule for dealing with third-person singular pronouns, which prescribes using the gender of the author or principal author as the default, and I hope in vain that others will adopt it.
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+> —Charles Murray, _Real Education_
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+The Murray Rule is a fine illustration of the [use of conventions as a symmetry-breaker](/2020/Jan/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness/): instead of having to [flip a coin every time](https://web.archive.org/web/20070615130139/http://singinst.org/upload/CFAI.html#foot-15) you want to talk about a hypothetical human in the third person,
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+[chauvanistic, women and men were made for each other]
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