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>> ... then we could simply focus at the moment of judgement (which btw, is also currently biased [1])

[1] being a link to Steinpreis/Anders/Ritzke (1999)

> You're right that it's biased, but perhaps not in the way you think it is: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360.abstract

At risk of repeating myself... You've taken a study that looked specifically at tenure-track faculty hiring within four STEM subjects, i.e. a very specific, limited, scope. You then presented that as "evidence" in a general context (in reply to a point about hiring in general being biased against women) in order to argue that the hiring process is biased against men, without any mention of the limited scope of that study.

The way I see it, one of these things is true;

(a) You made a mistake, fair enough, no big deal

(b) You're unfamiliar interpreting studies, fair enough, no big deal

(c) You're misrepresenting science to further an agenda

Given your vociferous objections to affirmative action I'm guessing (c) but happy to give you the benefit of the doubt.



(d) You are deeply embedded in an ideology and therefore not able to deal with facts in an unbiased way. Had the results of that study been the reverse, the study would have been fantastic since it is objectively much stronger than any of the studies you cited.




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