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Read your quote. It just means that just because there is a gender gap, we cannot simply assumed there must be sexism. It is not a statement about a specific c
by Banthum 9y ago
Read your quote. It just means that just because there is a gender gap, we cannot simply assumed there must be sexism.
It is not a statement about a specific case, but a general point on rationality.
And it is undeniably true in the general sense.
This means that if someone wants to convince us there is sexism in a specific case, they must demonstrate that specifically, not just note a lopsided gender ratio and assume the mechanism.
- xelxebar 9y agoWhile we're on the rational point, I personally take inspiration from Bayes Law---A gender gap is weak evidence for sexist practices. All else equal, sexists worlds are more likely to produce gender gaps than non-sexist ones. To me, part of the trickiness of the entire "equality" discussions is that we don't have clear, "correct" distributions of variable X for demographic Y. Pure egalitarianism is iffy, because given any distribution, we can manufacture a demographic that is "underrepresented", so it's not at all clear that flat equality across "reasonable" demographics is even logically sound. I kind of piggy backed off your comment there and ran in a bit of a different direction. Hope you don't mind.