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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 899253" data-attributes="member: 812">You know, comments like this (and the assumptions they seem to carry behind them) are so loaded that they tend to inspire fury rather than debate.If you were interested in learning about the gender distribution of ruthlessness in SHARK's group, a simple, "Do you find the men more ruthless than the women?" would have sufficed AND not have included any assumptions that people might get cranky about.It's not that I think it's pointless to ask or talk about such things, it's just that people have a tendency to get pretty worked up about the worldviews implicit in the manner in which your question was asked. Not getting people worked up leads to more interesting discussions, in my experience. Of course you know best what your actual intent was and I may be way off the mark. Apologies if so -- I'm just seeking to head off the sorts of angry posting that gets threads closed.</blockquote>