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Re:Sexism in the Academy: Women's narrowing path to tenure by UncleMeat on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @07:15PM (#20762944)
This argument would only make sense if hiring for academic positions included random samples.
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Re:Sexism in the Academy: Women's narrowing path to tenure by oarabbus_ on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:01PM (#20770172)
No, not really; the applicant pool is, by definition, not random.
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