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Ah, blame everything on the white men. What an unexpected conclusion.

• trendia 9y ago
  You're likely getting downvoted by people who havem't read the article. The article highlights the following quote not once, but twice: "What on first inspection seemed like a sex difference was actually a difference between white males and everyone else."
  • wcummings 9y ago
    I read the article, I downvoted him because he's taking it too personally. His comment is whiny and substanceless. I'm a white man, I wasn't insulted by this article. If you are, that sounds like a personal problem to me.
  • smichel17 9y ago
    This bothered me, particularly since the text of the article itself goes on to show examples where the "white male effect" does not exist. The entire point of the article is that people are not in fact biologically predisposed to risk; the quote is rather misleading for people who are just skimming the article.
  • zzalpha 9y ago
    If you did read it, you'd know the article claims that systemic bias leads some to be privileged over others in society, thus causing them to be more willing to take risk since they perceive less risk in the first place. The "white male", in that case, is used because it was an American study, and in America "white males" are privileged due to socioeconomic structural biases. The article goes on to point out that in a more egalitarian country like Sweden there is far less gender bias in risk taking, which further supports the article's claim. The article then goes on to discuss similar biases in China, where, again, males are privileged, though obvious they aren't "white" in that case. If one is reading this article without an intent to take offense, one would realize its conclusions would lead us to predict that, in truly matriarchal society, it would be the women who would predominantly be risk takers.