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Problem 1: You're impute a rather radical belief onto all feminists. You are constructing a straw feminist. Problem 2: How is a person supposed to choose an un
by DaniFong 16y ago
Problem 1: You're impute a rather radical belief onto all feminists. You are constructing a straw feminist.
Problem 2: How is a person supposed to choose an unbiased test? What do you even mean?
Problem 3: The most obvious fact should be that people are complicated, and aren't so easily reducible to a neat pile of normally distributed aptitudes dependent on a binary gender variable. The cold hard fact you should be aware of is that those who are trying to make this sound simple or concrete or objectively determined are deceiving themselves. The counterfactual you'd look for -- if everyone were gender blind, how would women fair in science and technology? -- hasn't come close to true. And as long as people continue to slam their fights and debate over whether women are innately unsuited to this kind of work, they won't be -- the nature of the stereotype threat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat) will ensure it.