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Re:Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human wri... by vkou on Sunday March 10, 2019 @09:55PM (#19356105)
> women are as much likely to formulate a biased opinion than men.

The point isn't that the researchers were biased, the point is that there was a monoculture of bias.

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Re:Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human wri... by AnimalMuppet on Sunday March 10, 2019 @10:36PM (#19356253)
There was a monoculture which may have been biased. I saw nothing in this article to indicate that the researcher was seeing something different because she was female - merely that she was following a different evidence trail.
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Re:Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human wri... by vkou on Monday March 11, 2019 @01:31AM (#19356895)
How aware are you of the very long, and often sordid history of gender bias in science?
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