The Real Bev wrote on Sun, 18 Feb 2024 12:35:57 -0800 :
> Best is "Ladies, please keep your knees together."
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True story. I was in elementary school, well before the age of puberty, and
the teacher tells the entire class that the girls have to keep their legs
together. I was probably around the middle years, second, or third grade.
I was confused.
The teacher seemed angry.
Why would girls need to keep their legs together, and not the boys, I
pondered. Why was the teacher angry about it. It didn't make sense until
later when I learned more about the differences between girls & boys.
My analytical mind saw a discrepancy - but it didn't understand because a
key datapoint was missing which was the behavior of people after puberty.
Same thing happened in catechism where a young nun told us one week that
the Adam and Eve story is meant to be symbolic and not actual reality.
A short time later, maybe a week or two at most, the nun retracts the
story, which again confused me. Why would she change her mind so suddenly.
I did wonder though why there were two old stern matronly looking nuns on
both sides of her and one in the back of the room - which I had never seen
before or since.
As Myers-Briggs notes, there are intuitive people (who don't need no
stinkin' data) and there are sensing people (who do).
Without a lot of datapoints, our assessments of facts can be wrong.
Which is why, unfortunately, highly intuitive people are very often wrong
in a complex society which requires taking in data from all parties.
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