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Also: Bridges built by men tend to fall less. My statement is as important as the one in the link above. Change my mind.

• PaulHoule 3y ago
  It would be pretty hard to get a completely fair sample. For instance if you just went through a list of surgeons you'd probably find that female surgeons were trained later on average than male surgeons, so they were trained in newer methods. On the other hand, the male surgeons are probably more experienced than average. There's also the (I think Malcolm Gladwell) idea that the person who doesn't look the type is likely to be more competent than the person who does look the type. There's certainly the story that there are a lot of male software engineers who are terrible but no females. (e.g. the terrible women in software dev are project managers.)