Term of art with racist origin
In the field of probability, there is a fundamental theorem called "The Dutch Book Theorem." Regardless of your original language, this theorem will be known to you if you work with probability with any depth. The theorem says that the laws of probability will follow from assuming that a rational, profit-maximizing bookie, who is willing to accept all finite bets at stated menu prices, is managing the bets. That is to say, a rational, profit-maximizing bookie cannot create a Dutch book.
You could use the Dutch book theorem as a basis to estimate cancer growth rates, study language changes, estimate the distance to a star or bet on horses. It makes the idea of "what is it worth to you" explicit.
It asks "why are you investing so much of your life studying this? Do you view this as a good gamble?" It allows you to challenge someone who doesn't believe in science, such as gravitation to "I will tell you what, you bet $100 that gravity does not exist and I will pay you $1000 if you are correct. Let's go to a ten story building and you can step off of it. I will hold the money." If they refuse the bet, then their beliefs are held at less than 10:1 even if in public they speak with certainty.
Just a note, the last time gravitation was opposed in public education was 1969. The moon shot ended that line of discussion.
The origin of the term is in 17th or 18th-century gambling. To Dutch a book is to mess up the gambles you accepted as a bookie so badly that no matter what happens, you, the bookie, are guaranteed to lose. It comes from two sources of racism. In the United Kingdom, it comes from the English-Dutch wars. That sense carried forward to the American colonies but was conflated with the word Deutch to include Germans. In this case, it implies stupidity, but it can also have a dishonest connotation, such as if an immigrant rigged their bosses book so someone else would win.
I have two questions. The first is "are there other 'terms of art' which connote a racist meaning?" The second is "what to do with this term when everyone knows it and it lacks a ready replacement term?"
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In the field of probability, there is a fundamental theorem called "The Dutch Book Theorem." Regardless of your original language, this theorem will be known to you if you work with probability with any depth. The theorem says that the laws of probability will follow from assuming that a rational, profit-maximizing bookie, who is willing to accept all finite bets at stated menu prices, is managing the bets. That is to say, a rational, profit-maximizing bookie cannot create a Dutch book.
You could use the Dutch book theorem as a basis to estimate cancer growth rates, study language changes, estimate the distance to a star or bet on horses. It makes the idea of "what is it worth to you" explicit.
It asks "why are you investing so much of your life studying this? Do you view this as a good gamble?" It allows you to challenge someone who doesn't believe in science, such as gravitation to "I will tell you what, you bet $100 that gravity does not exist and I will pay you $1000 if you are correct. Let's go to a ten story building and you can step off of it. I will hold the money." If they refuse the bet, then their beliefs are held at less than 10:1 even if in public they speak with certainty.
Just a note, the last time gravitation was opposed in public education was 1969. The moon shot ended that line of discussion.
The origin of the term is in 17th or 18th-century gambling. To Dutch a book is to mess up the gambles you accepted as a bookie so badly that no matter what happens, you, the bookie, are guaranteed to lose. It comes from two sources of racism. In the United Kingdom, it comes from the English-Dutch wars. That sense carried forward to the American colonies but was conflated with the word Deutch to include Germans. In this case, it implies stupidity, but it can also have a dishonest connotation, such as if an immigrant rigged their bosses book so someone else would win.
I have two questions. The first is "are there other 'terms of art' which connote a racist meaning?" The second is "what to do with this term when everyone knows it and it lacks a ready replacement term?"
idioms pejorative-language technical
asked 7 mins ago
Dave HarrisDave Harris
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add a comment |
In the field of probability, there is a fundamental theorem called "The Dutch Book Theorem." Regardless of your original language, this theorem will be known to you if you work with probability with any depth. The theorem says that the laws of probability will follow from assuming that a rational, profit-maximizing bookie, who is willing to accept all finite bets at stated menu prices, is managing the bets. That is to say, a rational, profit-maximizing bookie cannot create a Dutch book.
You could use the Dutch book theorem as a basis to estimate cancer growth rates, study language changes, estimate the distance to a star or bet on horses. It makes the idea of "what is it worth to you" explicit.
It asks "why are you investing so much of your life studying this? Do you view this as a good gamble?" It allows you to challenge someone who doesn't believe in science, such as gravitation to "I will tell you what, you bet $100 that gravity does not exist and I will pay you $1000 if you are correct. Let's go to a ten story building and you can step off of it. I will hold the money." If they refuse the bet, then their beliefs are held at less than 10:1 even if in public they speak with certainty.
Just a note, the last time gravitation was opposed in public education was 1969. The moon shot ended that line of discussion.
The origin of the term is in 17th or 18th-century gambling. To Dutch a book is to mess up the gambles you accepted as a bookie so badly that no matter what happens, you, the bookie, are guaranteed to lose. It comes from two sources of racism. In the United Kingdom, it comes from the English-Dutch wars. That sense carried forward to the American colonies but was conflated with the word Deutch to include Germans. In this case, it implies stupidity, but it can also have a dishonest connotation, such as if an immigrant rigged their bosses book so someone else would win.
I have two questions. The first is "are there other 'terms of art' which connote a racist meaning?" The second is "what to do with this term when everyone knows it and it lacks a ready replacement term?"
idioms pejorative-language technical
asked 7 mins ago
Dave HarrisDave Harris
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In the field of probability, there is a fundamental theorem called "The Dutch Book Theorem." Regardless of your original language, this theorem will be known to you if you work with probability with any depth. The theorem says that the laws of probability will follow from assuming that a rational, profit-maximizing bookie, who is willing to accept all finite bets at stated menu prices, is managing the bets. That is to say, a rational, profit-maximizing bookie cannot create a Dutch book.
You could use the Dutch book theorem as a basis to estimate cancer growth rates, study language changes, estimate the distance to a star or bet on horses. It makes the idea of "what is it worth to you" explicit.
It asks "why are you investing so much of your life studying this? Do you view this as a good gamble?" It allows you to challenge someone who doesn't believe in science, such as gravitation to "I will tell you what, you bet $100 that gravity does not exist and I will pay you $1000 if you are correct. Let's go to a ten story building and you can step off of it. I will hold the money." If they refuse the bet, then their beliefs are held at less than 10:1 even if in public they speak with certainty.
Just a note, the last time gravitation was opposed in public education was 1969. The moon shot ended that line of discussion.
The origin of the term is in 17th or 18th-century gambling. To Dutch a book is to mess up the gambles you accepted as a bookie so badly that no matter what happens, you, the bookie, are guaranteed to lose. It comes from two sources of racism. In the United Kingdom, it comes from the English-Dutch wars. That sense carried forward to the American colonies but was conflated with the word Deutch to include Germans. In this case, it implies stupidity, but it can also have a dishonest connotation, such as if an immigrant rigged their bosses book so someone else would win.
I have two questions. The first is "are there other 'terms of art' which connote a racist meaning?" The second is "what to do with this term when everyone knows it and it lacks a ready replacement term?"
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