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I think the two of you are in violent agreement.

• throwaway894345 6y ago
  We generally agree, though not violently :). I was pointing out that the effect is a bit bigger than the parent suggested. The authors aren’t abandoning their priors about anti-female bias; on the contrary they aren’t even recognizing that this evidence challenges those priors—they assume that the evidence to prove their priors must exist elsewhere and in sufficiently large effect as to counteract and dominate this pro-female bias. Note that I think it’s a fine thing to stick to one’s priors until they’ve been conclusively disproven, but recognition when the evidence obviously challenges one’s priors is my baseline for good faith. That said, I suspect this paper is written as it was because the authors thought their careers might be in danger for merely suggesting that the disparity might have a cause beyond discrimination.
• geoduck14 6y ago
  > violent agreement I'm using this phrase the next time my daughters are playing and they start to yell at each other.