I don't think he was disparaging his looks, but rather his social skills. It's undeniable that Zuckerberg is not really an extroverted social butterfly with good public speaking skills, which is kind of a requirement if you want to get into politics.
I always wondered, why don't women get very harsh sentences if they get caught making up false rape allegations? I think that would discourage that sort of behavior and sort of balance things out.
It would lead to pretty much every man accused of rape with threatening to sue/press charges against their accuser and further stigmatize rape victims and lower the number who come forward.
Innocent until proven guilty applies to them too. What percentage of false allegations can be proven to be false, like the accused being in a different place at the time? Despite a couple of high profile exceptions I'd wager that's small enough to be a rounding error.
it would be more effective if there was a wide-ranging public campaign in support of men who have been wronged, like a #NotMeToo . Escalating a war of the sexes is madness
Deeply-engrained cultural/societal biases that women can do no harm. You can see it in the trickle of sexual assault cases involving a woman teacher/underage male student; the women often get a relative wrist-slap of days in prison, if that. And let's not even get started on how routinely and holistically fucked men get in family/divorce courts.
You don't hear about these problems talked about though, simply because men are the affected parties.
Points 1 2 and 4 are pretty well studied in academia concerning intelligence. Intelligence is defined as "g", and it's 60 to 80% heritable depending on the study (leaning towards 80%).
The article is pretty interesting and I didn't read the whole thing. The correlations are positive but not 1, sometimes less than 0.5. So it shows genes are positively correlated, but very different than saying it's an exclusive factor? So the problem with this is that even if something is correlated at 10% (for arguments sake), it can have predictive power. But that doesn't mean it can become the sole basis. Thats the cognitive jump most folks are incapable of and these discussions often lead to very wrong outcomes. Indeed this bias has led to many horrific examples of discrimination.
Also the heritability seems to be put at 0.5, not a sure thing? So it obviously can be heritable, but that doesn't rule out that it is only heritable and no other avenues for it exist?
Perhaps you meant that at any given time, the heritability of a trait depends on the "state" of the population, and that heritability values can change over time. This is true, but I don't understand why you'd bring it up.
I'm really curious if there's a deeper reason for why companies are suddenly thrown under the bus by the mainstream media, or if it's just journalists mimicking each other because they lack imagination. First Elon, now Zuck. Who's next?
It is really this. Google was founded by two nice guys and somewhat went the way of large corporations. Facebook was founded by a jerk and just expanded its capacity to be a jerk.
There is a huge appetite for content and editors are constantly chasing the latest fashion in an attempt to gain readership. If you're a journalist it's much easier to get a piece picked up by an editor and published if it's in tune with the zeitgeist because then an editor is more likely to think it will capture peoples' attention.
I've come to the conclusion that the news/attention cycle is partly an emergent phenomenon explained by stuff like this. This means you get pretty big swings from one thing to another as editors chase each other to jump on the latest bandwagon and journalists push stories to every outlet they can find.
Add to that all the PR agencies, fake think tanks, spinmasters etc who will write pieces for hire and generally tip the scales (for a price). So if you have a particular angle to promote, you hire one of these companies, they write stories, op ed pieces, publish "research" etc favourable to your angle and give them to friendly journalists who pretty much just put their name on the byline and submit the story.
