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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by westoncb on Friday December 13, 2019 @01:40AM (#21779604)
Someone want to break down how to calculate the odds here?
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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by kilotaras on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:42AM (#21780061)
Assuming gender has no impact on awfulness

P(all your female bossses awful) = P(awful boss)^(number of female bosses)

P(all your male bossses awful) = P(awful boss)^(number of male bosses)

The lower the number of male/female bosses, the greater the probability of all of them being awful. The opposite (probability of all of them being not awful) increasing is also true.

This is generally known as a small numbers fallacy[1]

https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/Book%3A_...

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