Careful with your terminology
Careful with your terminology
Posted Oct 2, 2007 17:21 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (guest, #15091)In reply to: Careful with your terminology by evgeny
Parent article: To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet)
I did suggest we might use different definitions - to which you extremely politely replied "you are bordering the obtuse."You did suggest your own alternate definition for the same term, "IQ", which has a perfectly defined meaning already. I only replied the quoted sentence when you tried to use as explanation of your alternate definitions a wikipedia graph about normals which you can find in the corresponding article. Sorry if I'm being pedantic, but as I explained it is especially important to use the right terms in this area.
I accept your suggestions (males are more profficient at some abilities than females, and those may be crucial for certain FOSS projects), but I don't think they are very likely -- or relevant. As to the rest, all you say is perfectly reasonable and I think we mostly agree.