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> selection pool for women is smaller in STEM, therefore less women means less exceptional women This is only true if you assume women in STEM are a random sam
by KingMob 11y ago
> selection pool for women is smaller in STEM, therefore less women means less exceptional women
This is only true if you assume women in STEM are a random sampling. If you consider survivorship bias, it's quite possible that the cohort of women who persist are better, despite being fewer in number.
- iLoch 11y agoThe same is also true for men, unless you start with the belief that the misogyny is a baseline factor that women have to deal with. But that's what this analysis is trying to figure out. Chicken and egg maybe?