swansont

Nobody has gotten around the 2nd law, which states that entropy of an isolated system can’t decrease, and it hasn’t. Usually it increases, and in this case it hasn’t, or at least that’s apparently the case.

The issue isn’t that they change spins - the spins are undetermined until measured. And in entanglement, once you measure one particle, you know the spin of the other. It’s one event.

I’m on an iPad and it plays embedded. Maybe the OS capabilities impact this - whether some codec is supported, allowing embedded play? (edit: sorry, my earlier post was pre-caffeine and I thought you were apologizing for how the video rendered.)

The period varies with the square root of the length, so the oscillations are out of phase. But they will eventually get 180 deg. out of phase, and later back in phase, with each pendulum having completed a different number of oscillations, and relatively quickly if you choose the lengths properly.

Do you really think there were no transgender or intersex individuals in the population by the time we evolved into modern humans? We have two categories because that's a decent first-order approximation, which works most of the time for most people, and doesn't require any nuance (which is beyond some of the population) IOW, part of the reason we start with the premise of male/female is because it's easy. (It's not all that different from physics where we start with the idea of frictionless surfaces/no air resistance because it leads to problems we can solve exactly) Or we just deal with it and accept the fact that the really tall person might excel at the sport. Not everyone wins. As opposed to "we can't let this person compete because then this other person might not win" We already know from a biology standpoint that the binary system is wrong/incomplete. It's a matter of society, politics and economics (and probably other factors) that go into amending this

! Moderator Note Our rules specifically forbid this kind of post (2.7) "We don't mind if you put a link to your noncommercial site (e.g. a blog) in your signature and/or profile, but don't go around making threads to advertise it."

And you chose not to link to the blog and the claims it makes.

Now, can you point out where ADE is mentioned? (and perhaps inform us as to what ADE stands for)

If you have a link, then I'm sure you've accessed the paper, and you should be able to copy/past the summary or abstract here into the forum (as StringJunky has done) and comply with rule 2.7 (people have to be able to participate in the discussion without clicking any links)

Can you provide more information, such as the abstract of this paper?

But we've established that this is more nuanced than "male/female biology" so such comparisons start to prove problematic. (edit: part of the issue, in the US, at least, is the swath of people who have decided that it is as simple and two genders, because that's all that's acknowledged in the Bible, so any subtler detail recognized in biology is simply discarded) Do you look at the entire spectrum of competitors, or only the edge cases? IOW, are we comparing a person who is (gender)-assigned-at-birth but is transgender with an olympic athlete, or me? I don't disagree with either. But we also recognize that someone who is 6' 8" probably has an advantage over most people of even above average height (say, 6'2") in basketball or volleyball and nobody is complaining about accommodations for short people. Sex here does or could include gender. The realities I pointed out earlier mean this is more nuanced than a simple binary choice, and the courts have a say in what constitutes sex/gender in terms of discrimination. Do we make an exception for sports? If so, why?

One of the battles is to get people to accept the scientific evidence we do have. Namely that gender is not a simple two-category situation, and so one that's more complicated than dividing people into two groups based on what body parts you have, or what chromosomes you have. As for another part of this, I don't think billion-dollar sports organizations need my input on how to run their business.

That’s what we’re stuck with, at the moment. It’s not my insistence, per se. Society either does this, or excludes the triangle from participation. Thank for saving me from having to post this. (and technically I dehumanized all humans, which is kinda the point of the analogy. reduced emotional/ideological baggage)

Causality makes it relevant. Segregation cannot be caused by equality of opportunity, when equality happened after. There is no equality of opportunity when the platform doesn’t exist.

You seem to be speaking of league organizations. “women's sports organizations” is a much more general description. Non-professional leagues wouldn’t be making such rules. They would be following the laws that apply to them. Professional sports leagues would also be constrained by such laws.

! Moderator Note Who are these people? Once again, you make a nebulous claim with no substantiation. And without having established that this was the default position at some vague time in the past (yes, I noticed that you dodged that) Again: establish that your premise is true. Last chance.

The Women’s Sports Foundation is not a women’s sports organization. Huh.

Are these rating systems purported to be used for betting purposes? And for soccer? Sensei's link says Glicko is for "games of skill, such as chess and Go" You use the tools that are best suited to the job. It's much less useful to complain that your hammer sucks at tightening a bolt.

Also the "time isn't a real dimension" argument

You're addressing a different point. These sports were already segregated, which you seem to be agreeing with, meaning the segregation didn't exist in order to facilitate equality. It means equality of opportunity was achieved (or progress was made toward it) which is a different issue, and not the one I was addressing. I chose 1920 to show that the segregation in sports dates back at least that far. Giving more recent data is moot in that regard I strongly suspect that women just started doing these sports on their own, in defiance of men telling them the shouldn't (or couldn't) and they only became accepted on an institutional level after much effort. But all you have are square and round, and the law says (or at least morals should say) that you can't exclude anyone. Whoah. Where did I suggest there should be no gender categories? I did the opposite. I specifically pointed out that AFAICT nobody has suggested this. I think we've been talking about both, which may be part of the problem.

Yes, I agree. I was focused on what I quoted - the part about sacrifice not being a necessary part. (especially if you don't have the money, or connections, or opportunity, etc. that others might be leveraging)

I don't see how this follows. There's innate ability and there is practice/honing of skills. As you say, skills are learned. So sacrifice is going to be part of that. If you aren't willing to put in the time to get better, there's a limit to how much better you will get.

It's not a matter of "need" If there is a difference in ability, there will be a hierarchy. Because someone realized people would pay to be entertained/distracted

Thank you ___ So this is about a rating system, and somewhat related to applied math. Well, it is probably true that any rating system is flawed, for reasons/examples that have been pointed out (they will all assume something about the competition, and usually can be gamed)

! Moderator Note I will say what I've said several times before, and something I grow tired of saying: establish that your premise is true before launching into a discussion based on it being true. Not made-up, or based on cherry-picking the data. I'm confused by this. If it's an "unmistakably disproven myth" what's the myth? i.e. who are you going after - the people who said vaccines were bad, or the people who were blaming it on the left?