A Study Found That Blind Auditions Reduced Sexism in the Orchestra. Or Did It?

Posted by fortran77 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @12:24AM
from the reason.com dept.

https://reason.com/2019/10/22/orchestra-study-blind-auditions-gelman/

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Re:A Study Found That Blind Auditions Reduced Sexism in the ... by skeptical900067 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @01:34AM (#21331405)

Andrew Gelman is quoted as saying that 2000 was the stone age in recognizing statistical error. Has statistics really come that far in 20 years?

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Re:A Study Found That Blind Auditions Reduced Sexism in the ... by Arnt on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @01:50AM (#21331478)

No. But non-statisticians' understanding of it has improved. Scientists who've been exposed to R, say, can't be as ignorant of statistics as was common a generation ago.

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