Re: Phaleran homosexuality

Quoting christopher carter <cscfon@...>:

> Non-straight conlangers?  I don't know why but that idea cracked
> me up.  I don't know why.  In college, half the professors and
> most of the male students in the Linguistics Department were gay.
> I even had a professor show me an article he found about a research
> study that showed that the part of the human brain that handles
> language tended to be larger in homosexual males as opposed to
> hetersexaul males.
This sounds suspiciously like a spatial version of the post-hoc-
ergo-propter-hoc fallacy in logic:  you find a correlation of
these two things in space, and therefore they are a related
somehow. Very dubious.

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