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Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by nostrebored on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @05:54PM (#12688841)
Shocking that the only people actually researching this are feminists!

The other side of the coin is represented by neuroscientists trying to prove that the ladybrain is inferior at mathematics or evolutionary psychologists trying to assert that evolution has made women excel at caregiving and men at being hyperlogical.

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Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by mafribe on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:03PM (#12688885)
What you do is called "whataboutism" [1] as the scientific value (or otherwise) of evolutionary psychology doesn't affect the lack of methodological self-awareness of Hall, Phillips and Williams, in particular the complete absence of reflection on their own confirmation bias.

    the only people actually researching this
They are not the only people researching this, but in the current political climate, any alternative research is unlikely to get funded.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by nostrebored on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:15PM (#12688966)
I just mentioned entire fields that are funded doing research that suggests the alternative. What you're doing is selectively ignoring the implications of cross-disciplinary research.
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