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I like the statistics based approach to this. But it answers less questions than it poses: e.g. given that statistics says that there are always outliers, how
by Argorak 12y ago
I like the statistics based approach to this.
But it answers less questions than it poses: e.g. given that statistics says that there are always outliers, how come that the outlier "a lot more women than expected by statistics on this conference" is almost never found, while the other outlier is often?
(chemistry, by the way, is a field that has an equal gender ratio at start in some countries: http://www.rsc.org/Education/EiC/issues/2012May/Yellowlees-women-chemistry-students.asp http://www.rsc.org/Education/EiC/issues/2012May/Yellowlees-w...)
- streptomycin 12y agoBut it answers less questions than it poses: e.g. given that statistics says that there are always outliers, how come that the outlier "a lot more women than expected by statistics on this conference" is almost never found, while the other outlier is often? That just poses another question: how do you know your premise is true? chemistry, by the way, is a field that has an equal gender ratio at start in some countries FWIW, this isn't a general chemistry conference, it's a rather mathy one.
- Argorak 12y agoSure, but that is neither answered by the OP nor any of the numbers that are usually thrown around. Still, some events claim that they are outliers if they have no or almost no women on the roster. My point is more that there is not sufficient hard data in the discussion to support anything. (the first sentence in my post was half in jest)