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psyopsylast Thursday at 11:23 PM1 replyview on HN

Sex is the strongest single predictor of vocational interest orientation we’ve found. Nothing else comes close. If that’s not ‘explained by biology,’ you need to tell me what would be. Otherwise you’re operating on faith.


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__alexslast Friday at 8:26 AM

It's hard to control for social conditioning. I don't need to be able to tell you what the alternative is to be able to tell you that there are many confounding factors.

Knowing what does not explain something, doesn't tell you what does explain it.

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