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too male centric. how about JL Jr./PG Jr.


well, their child is likely to be a boy. statistics show most hackers are male.


Hmm. I think the statistics says "Attractive couples have more female children". (Edit: see the "Engineers Have More Sons, Nurses Have More Daughters: An Evolutionary Psychological Extension of Baron-Cohen's Extreme Male Brain Theory of Autism and Its Empirical Implications." and "Beautiful Parents Have More Daughters: A Further Implication of the Generalized Trivers-Willard Hypothesis")

Ok, we might just admit our stereotype that hackers are not that good looking. But for each individual, he/she may be a black swan.

Someone may start to build a model to predict the probability distribution of genders of Leah Culver's children?


My wife and I had a daughter, and while my wife is certainly beautiful, I'm not sure I'd qualify:-)

Your use of "Black Swan" isn't correct though, IMO, because black swan refers to things that are decidedly un bell curve like, and while most hackers probably aren't lookers, it's easy to reason that a few will be.


I agree. it is incorrect. Quantitatively it is the high sigma in Gaussian distribution.




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