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No. He said "any systematic discrepancy is blamed automatically on some kind of discrimination, without consideration of the possibility for consistent differen
by atom-morgan 9y ago
No. He said "any systematic discrepancy is blamed automatically on some kind of discrimination, without consideration of the possibility for consistent differences in merit between subpopulations."
This doesn't factor in which gender is more represented. Parent could have said the same thing about nursing or elementary school teachers but that doesn't mean they're implying men are better than women.
- mfoy_ 9y agoI'm not going to go to great lengths to explain to you how you are missing the message. It's not about "factoring in" anything, or what the specific "subpopulation" at play is. GP used a lot of big fancy words to literally(!!) say "Whenever cases like this arise, people are so quick to jump to 'sexism' as the answer without even allowing for the possibility that women just actually are worse employees than men."
- atom-morgan 9y ago> without even allowing for the possibility that women just actually are worse employees than men. Again, you're reading what you want to read.
- mfoy_ 9y agoHow else can you read "consistent differences in merit between subpopulations" when the context is gender discrimination in employee performance reviews?
- nnfy 9y agoMale, female, transgender, white, black, straight, homosexual, rich, poor, country of origin... Again, this is my point. Any time there is an overabundance of straight white males, and only straight white males, discrimination is presumed, with no actual evidence to suggest that these groups are equal in every task. You wouldn't argue that there are not systematic differences in physical performance between these various groups, but somehow cognitive performance, which is even more strongly influenced by environment and upbringing, is not allowed to be examined objectively.