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From: west@sdcsla.UUCP (Larry West)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics
Message-ID: <898@sdcsla.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 18:02:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 20 18:02:12 1985
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Organization: UC San Diego: Institute for Cognitive Science
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Summary: An admission of arrogance?

In article <1340210@acf4.UUCP> mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) writes:
>
>Actually, the only legitimate criteria for measuring "worth" are
>supply and demand.  It is arrogant for one to insist that the rest of the
>world adapt to one's personal notions of "worth."
>
>					Mike Sykora

Very funny!

(I presume the author was aware of the irony; I'm just pointing it
out to others because of its subtlety.   Though the author missed
a more difficult issue, that of the meaning of "supply & demand"
in a decidely non-free market.)
-- 

Larry West			Institute for Cognitive Science
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