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darrendahly.github.io
Personal blog · darrendahly.github.io/postsciencedata
darrendahly.github.io is a personal blog at darrendahly.github.io about science and data. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Sex differences”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on sex differences in personality and on human calorie burn. One commenter cites a quantitative look at the greater male variability hypothesis, and another disputes a calorie-burn study's conclusion.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Principal Statistician | Senior Lecturer
Most-linked posts?
- Sex differences2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-12
What Hacker News says?
The conclusion is almost certainly wrong: 1. From a simple sniff test, if this were true, then athletes wouldn't need a lot of calories. This obviously isn't true, eg Phelps eats 8-11K calories a day. I personally eat around 3.5K calories a day. If exercise didn't impact caloric burn I assure you I'd be a lot fatter... 2. The only plausible mechanisms for why exercise wouldn't result in more overall caloric burn is…
Comment linking /post/2012-08-31-hunter-gatherer/
on “Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories”Submitted Sex differences as a story · 75 points
HN discussionhttps://darrendahly.github.io/post/2017-09-12-sex-difference... Looking at it quantitatively, the greater male variability hypothesis mattered less than I expected.
Comment linking /post/2017-09-12-sex-differences/
on “Taking sex differences in personality seriously (2019)”