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About the Selection Leader story, it may not be that we have a different scale for men and women, but just that, since people are aware of a potential negative
by antirez 9y ago
About the Selection Leader story, it may not be that we have a different scale for men and women, but just that, since people are aware of a potential negative bias towards women, they unconsciously try to avoid the error of giving a worse score to the woman, so they ended boosting the score as a "protection" mechanism. Since we are human it is very hard to avoid this kind of mistakes, especially given that the whole discrimination problem is handled with such a tension that people over-react in all the directions at this point.
- 77pt77 9y ago> since people are aware of a potential negative bias towards women Except reality seems to be the opposite[1] > Contrary to prevailing assumptions, men and women faculty members from all four fields preferred female applicants 2:1 over identically qualified males with matching lifestyles (single, married, divorced), with the exception of male economists, who showed no gender preference. > Our findings, supported by real-world academic hiring data, suggest advantages for women launching academic science careers. [1] http://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360.abstract http://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360.abstract