Critical root zone and percentages

[guymayor]

I did read the links posted, and saw a lot of evidence of a politically incorrect past. No right/wrong there.

The problem is that it's taken as "a generalization" or "under normal circumstances" or a "a quick, but not very precise way of estimating". Rules of dumb are still prejudicial and misleading; they pull us away from gathering facts and toward speculation.

 

[ATH]

Fair enough

 

[southsoundtree]

Yes, you are correct. I was incorrect.

I'm in the thick of PC-ness.

I live in the town of The Evergreen State College, where my friend is a professor. There is a social justice slant even to teaching math.
This is the transgender capitol of WA, I bet. Local hub of the NW, I suspect.



As I said, above, it might be better business to avoid something misunderstood, than keep saying something that may offend misinformed customers who want to give you money and refer you along in 'their' (gender-neutral) community.

I've got many, many lesbian customers. I try to avoid the "you guys" phrase, as "you" or "y'all" is such an easy thing to say, even for a yank (Chicago). "Guidelines" works so easily, too.

Of course, some like being offended too much!

I would like to have a t-shirt made that says,

"Being so easily offended is a privileged, first-world problem. Go to Rwanda and talk to some Tutsis about your gender-neutral pronouns woes!".

(Tutsi genocide)

 

[guymayor]

a broadly accurate guide or principle, based on experience or practice rather than theory.

Trouble is, most rules of dumb that are foisted upon us are based on theory more than experience or practice.