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Re:Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadca... by hk__2 on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:20PM (#29786197)
This is a strawman argument. That some claims aren’t proven or that some similar logic was used to do another bad thing doesn’t mean OP is wrong. What OP is referring to is largely documented and is not some small claim from a random article.
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Re:Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadca... by inglor_cz on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:33PM (#29786412)
[citations needed]

Lots of previously believed claims fail to replicate. One of those is "stereotype threat", which was basically taken for granted for decades and also looks logically plausible.

https://replicationindex.com/2017/04/07/hidden-figures-repli...

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Re:Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadca... by hk__2 on Monday January 03, 2022 @04:14PM (#29787007)
That’s not that simple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat

> Some researchers have suggested that stereotype threat should not be interpreted as a factor in real-life performance gaps, and have raised the possibility of publication bias. […] However, meta-analyses and systematic reviews have shown significant evidence for the effects of stereotype threat, though the phenomenon defies over-simplistic characterization.

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