This piqued my interest this weekend:
Wait, what?
Geir Helgemo, who is Norwegian but represents Monaco in bridge events, tested positive for synthetic testosterone and the female fertility drug clomifene at a World Bridge Series event in Orlando in September.
Now I’m really confused, but probably not as confused as Geir sounds.
We could wander down the well-worn path of laughing at the logical knots the Cultural Marxists tie themselves into trying to square mental illness as normal, but we’ve been there enough times recently.
What’s more interesting is looking at the inconvenient facts that undermine the claims that gender is a social construct.
If that were the case, and that a “male brain” can exist in a female body and vice versa, we might expect competence to be reasonably well-distributed across human endeavours not requiring the physical advantages of a male body.
Bridge being one such example. Chess and Scrabble are others.
Bridge then; we’ve just ascertained that the top player in the world is male, albeit a little confused about things.
Here’s the Scrabble player world rankings.
Oh, if you aren’t convinced, go to the Twin Galaxies leaderboard for any arcade game hi-score and see if you can find a female name.
I’ll wait.
Yeah I was confused about the clomifene too. But apparently it’s used to offset some of the estrogen production caused by the metabolism of certain anabolic steroids.
Confusingly in small doses it inhibits estrogen, and in large doses it can promote it. Must be true, it was on the interweb.
So seems he was just trying to pile on the beef. As if being the world’s best bridge player still isn’t enough to get the chicks
There’s an investigation rabbithole I’m glad you fell down, not me.
How much human misery is perpetuated by our lack of an innate understanding of statistics? Our brains are still wired for living in groups of less than 500 people and, short of a firmware update, we are doomed to keep repeating the same mistakes.
Quite.
It’s one of my personal crusades to explain the difference between median and average to people.
I worked for a client a year or so ago that reported performance on resolving reported process failures using averages. ie “on average we fix all client issues within 2 days”.
The trouble is, on a volume of 5,000+ a month, some poor sucker is sitting on the outlier at 3 weeks without satisfaction.
He’s just following the Jeff Bezos route.