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Why Men Don’t Believe the Data on Gender Bias in Science
- cmurf 9y agoThe systemic sexism and racism on display every day in this country also exist within the confines of science. Scientists are not as objective as they think they are. It is an extremely destabilizing realization for someone whose entire career has been rooted in the belief in human objectivity.
- mcbobbington 9y agoYou can get "science" to say whatever you want. The so-called "science" in this article proving gender bias is absurd. It implies that if 2 people have "identical resumes", their work ability should be the same. That's just absurd.
- squozzer 9y agoHypothetically, we could improve the situation by instituting "blind" peer reviews. Maybe even salt the submissions with some fake research, just to see if reviewers are rubber-stamping.