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I don't see why a STEM afficionado would rebut with a logical fallacy.

I'm not surprised. Self-proclaimed STEM types often embrace a mild form of scientism until they study enough philosophy.

Also self proclaimed rational/logical people tend to lack self awareness, unsurprisingly.

Plenty of people who are very good at math and science decide they don’t want careers in those areas.

and they go to work as a software developer or a quant or something like that. People who are less gifted in realm of logic and reasoning go to humanities and become talkers - manager, gender reporters and do other jobs that require using trendy keywords without understanding the difference between correlation and causation.

Downvotes indicate there are a lot of these people on HN.

I hit the nerve.

You think HN is filled with people from the humanities fields? That would be odd. At minimum I think it’s fair to say that HN has a majority that don’t. In which case, if that dictated their views, your post should be net positive on votes. Instead I think it’s more likely that plenty of HN folks that work in STEM fields have also known people who are very smart that don’t work in such fields.

Being good at something doesn’t automatically make a person go into that for their career.

>You think HN is filled with people from the humanities fields? You are right.

>known people who are very smart that don’t work in such fields. True.

But the whole framing of the article is nonsense including a job title of "Gender, climate and sustainability reporter". Which makes me doubt intellectual and/or ethical capacity of people who downvoted/supported this nonsense and whole gender war agenda.

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