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Originally Posted by Blue Tyson
No it isn't.
Do a survey of the whole population, you will find that octogenarian internet knowledge is less than the rest of the population. Therefore pick one of them, it is more likely they know less. Note that I did not say it is definitely absolutely true in her case. So people's reading comprehension is lacking.  |
It is stereotyping. Stereotyping is a form of discrimination. It doesn't matter if you are right statistically.
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It is also more likely that someone with an arts degree knows less than someone with a computer science education.
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It depends on the subject. I think Laurence Lessig knows more about the internet than an army of CS majors, despite merely having degrees in economics, management, philospophy, and law.
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And if you still don't get it, it is also not discrimination to say that octogenarians are more likely to know more about pre-internet communications than teenagers.
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In general, sure. But you were applying this general rule to assume that one octagenarian didn't know as much as a college student. Substitute race and criminality to see the problem.