Which makes no sense because chess is a logic and presupposition game, not mathematical. And someone’s capacity for logic doesn’t determine their ability to translate that between mathematical logic and positional logic.
I get that it’s just a lead in to a gay porn, but they could at least have their basic understanding of logical deduction and individual capacity correct.
I would fundamentally disagree that being good at chess doesn’t help you with being good at maths.
Maths is an incredibly broad field, and a lot of the skills necessary for being good at maths at a higher level (visualisation, pattern recognition, mental stamina, etc.) are developed in chess.
This is only considering causation, but in the original meme all that’s required to explain the assumption being made is correlation, which there absolutely is. I ran a chess club when I was at university studying maths, and the vast majority of attendees were STEM students.
If I can put this in terms you’ll be happy with: the conditional probability that someone’s favourite subject is maths given they enjoy chess is much higher than the unconditional probability that someone’s favourite subject is maths.
As such, the remark made in the meme is entirely sensible, and thus the validity of the plot stands. The defense rests.
They said maths was their strongest subject not their favourite. Supposition of preference due to capacity is a mistake. Also you’ve fallen into the trap of conflating correlation and causation you even noted you had to for your point to be relevant. Capacity for mathematics doesn’t presuppose either a capacity or preference for chess, but for logic.
I was talking about the meme. Might be good at maths but that English comprehension leaves a lot to be desired.
And considering my original post was a joke, the one taking it too seriously is you… are you sure that reading comprehension is up to scratch? I sure hope it wasn’t your best subject.
The fact that this can be a post about something baseball themed and we aren’t using the phrase “switch hitter”, which is how ive referred to myself for a decade, is a shame.
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I’m pretty sure he was saying he liked math because he plays chess, not because he’s gay
Which makes no sense because chess is a logic and presupposition game, not mathematical. And someone’s capacity for logic doesn’t determine their ability to translate that between mathematical logic and positional logic.
I get that it’s just a lead in to a gay porn, but they could at least have their basic understanding of logical deduction and individual capacity correct.
I would fundamentally disagree that being good at chess doesn’t help you with being good at maths.
Maths is an incredibly broad field, and a lot of the skills necessary for being good at maths at a higher level (visualisation, pattern recognition, mental stamina, etc.) are developed in chess.
This is only considering causation, but in the original meme all that’s required to explain the assumption being made is correlation, which there absolutely is. I ran a chess club when I was at university studying maths, and the vast majority of attendees were STEM students.
If I can put this in terms you’ll be happy with: the conditional probability that someone’s favourite subject is maths given they enjoy chess is much higher than the unconditional probability that someone’s favourite subject is maths.
As such, the remark made in the meme is entirely sensible, and thus the validity of the plot stands. The defense rests.
They said maths was their strongest subject not their favourite. Supposition of preference due to capacity is a mistake. Also you’ve fallen into the trap of conflating correlation and causation you even noted you had to for your point to be relevant. Capacity for mathematics doesn’t presuppose either a capacity or preference for chess, but for logic.
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I was talking about the meme. Might be good at maths but that English comprehension leaves a lot to be desired.
And considering my original post was a joke, the one taking it too seriously is you… are you sure that reading comprehension is up to scratch? I sure hope it wasn’t your best subject.
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And yet you can’t read…
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Wha…what does it mean when someone’s sideways??? O_O
swing both ways
Well, duh. XD
The fact that this can be a post about something baseball themed and we aren’t using the phrase “switch hitter”, which is how ive referred to myself for a decade, is a shame.