So, I am an almost complete math illiterate beyond basic math. My idea is this: imagine you want to generalize a difference. For example: men are taller than women. That statement basically means all men are taller than all women. It's a generalization and not always true. The question is this: when, in your opinion, is it acceptable to generalize a difference?
My first thought was: when it's true on average. But then I imagined: what if it's distributed in such a way that the average of men is higher than the average of women but most women have a trait more than men?
My second thought was this: you have X number of men and Y number of women. You do X*Y and you have the number of total comparisons in that group. So if you have 6 people, 3 men and 3 women and you want to compare every men with every woman you will end up with 9 comparisons. You can generalize that men are taller than women if at least 5 comparisons have a man taller than a woman because the majority of the times it's true.
Does this make sense to you? Am I retarded?
My first thought was: when it's true on average. But then I imagined: what if it's distributed in such a way that the average of men is higher than the average of women but most women have a trait more than men?
My second thought was this: you have X number of men and Y number of women. You do X*Y and you have the number of total comparisons in that group. So if you have 6 people, 3 men and 3 women and you want to compare every men with every woman you will end up with 9 comparisons. You can generalize that men are taller than women if at least 5 comparisons have a man taller than a woman because the majority of the times it's true.
Does this make sense to you? Am I retarded?
