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> ... one might argue that a woman may or may not understand a female target audience better

One might argue that women _on average_ may or may not understand a female audience better, but I can't even begin to think how someone wouldn't understand that variations between individual understandings would dwarf any potential divide here.


"May or may not" is the same as "on average, may or may not".


I'm not certain of the exact context since the comment has been deleted, but the impression I gained was that my parent comment suggested tenuously that a person could justify a sexist position taken against an individual due to a statistical bias in the sexes. I was trying to emphasise that this position couldn't be taken logically, not suggesting that "may or may not" was being applied in a non-aggregate fashion.


This is changing the subject slightly, but to be fair, it's the same statistical bias that's used to say that men earn more than women.




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