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Re:Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing canc... by zug_zug on Friday January 01, 2021 @11:52AM (#25604544)
You very well may have a study that shows women produce a fraction of the science men do, maybe even per-capita, and that's not sexist per your own comment. You agreed it's only sexist if it attributes it to innate biology.

I'm done responding to you though because you're tone is confrontational and emotional.

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Re:Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing canc... by joshuamorton on Friday January 01, 2021 @02:45PM (#25606152)
Yes, because "women can't do science" and "women produce less scientific output" are different. There first is casual. The second is observational. (I guess you could make a semantic argument that "can't do science" means like "are unable to due to environmental factors" and is thus also ultimately observational, but that's not particularly convincing in the context of scientific research).
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