From 7a6af66b3e742fbdbd2a3aca1370559747de9f0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 15:17:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] prefer 0x2212 MINUS SIGN to 0x2D HYPHEN-MINUS --- content/2022/gaydar-jamming.md | 2 +- notes/post_ideas.txt | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/2022/gaydar-jamming.md b/content/2022/gaydar-jamming.md index c2730a1..03ecc2d 100644 --- a/content/2022/gaydar-jamming.md +++ b/content/2022/gaydar-jamming.md @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Looking back, I'm suspicious that I was reaching for [base rate neglect](https:/ Although when I try to put numbers on it now, it's actually looking like I happened to get this one right: if 3% of men are gay, you need log2(97/3) ≈ 5 [bits of evidence](/2018/Oct/the-information-theory-of-passing/) to think that someone probably is. Is a sufficiently distinctive "gay voice" that much evidence—something you're 32 times more likely to hear from a gay man than a straight man? -It looks like you have to go awfully far into the tail to get that sufficiently distinctive. Table 2 in Smyth _et al._'s ["Male Voices and Perceived Sexual Orientation"](/papers/smyth_et_al-male_voices_and_perceived_sexual_orientation.pdf) works out to [Cohen's _d_](/2019/Sep/does-general-intelligence-deflate-standardized-effect-sizes-of-cognitive-sex-differences/) ≈ 1.09. Assuming normality and equal variances for that effect size, you need to be 3.43 standard deviations out from the straight male mean in order to get that much evidence. (Because Φ(1.09 - 3.43)/Φ(-3.43) ≈ 32, where Φ is the [cumulative distribution function](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_distribution_function) of the normal distribution.) +It looks like you have to go awfully far into the tail to get that sufficiently distinctive. Table 2 in Smyth _et al._'s ["Male Voices and Perceived Sexual Orientation"](/papers/smyth_et_al-male_voices_and_perceived_sexual_orientation.pdf) works out to [Cohen's _d_](/2019/Sep/does-general-intelligence-deflate-standardized-effect-sizes-of-cognitive-sex-differences/) ≈ 1.09. Assuming normality and equal variances for that effect size, you need to be 3.43 standard deviations out from the straight male mean in order to get that much evidence. (Because Φ(1.09 − 3.43)/Φ(−3.43) ≈ 32, where Φ is the [cumulative distribution function](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_distribution_function) of the normal distribution.) I don't think Prof. H.'s voice was quite that extreme? Maybe it was only 2 or 2.5 standard deviations out, for a likelihood ratio of around 8–12.7, which is about 3–3.7 bits of evidence—which is an update from 3% to about 20–28%? diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index 199d59f..1887d3c 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ _ Link: "On Transitions, Freedom of Form, [...]" _ Interlude XXII _ Excerpt from _Redefining Realness_ +_ Unicode adopt-a-character?? (would it be wrong to adopt "♀"?) _ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WikzbCsFjpLTRQmXn/declustering-reclustering-and-filling-in-thingspace _ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology -- 2.17.1