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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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