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Re:No Fair Sex in Academia: Evidence of Discrimination in Hi... by jquery on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @03:24PM (#31573755)
Indeed, it seems they went into the study with preconceived notions about the superiority of men. Garbage in, garbage out.

Edit: just looked up the author. yikes... https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emil_O._W._Kirkegaard

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Re:No Fair Sex in Academia: Evidence of Discrimination in Hi... by temp8964 on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @04:10PM (#31574321)
I almost confused your link with Wikipedia...
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Re:No Fair Sex in Academia: Evidence of Discrimination in Hi... by jquery on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @02:35AM (#31578858)
Wikipedia policy about biographies of living people prevents this kind of “expose” type article from being written.
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Re:No Fair Sex in Academia: Evidence of Discrimination in Hi... by raxxorraxor on Friday June 03, 2022 @07:13AM (#31606793)
With good reason in most cases.
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Re:No Fair Sex in Academia: Evidence of Discrimination in Hi... by jquery on Monday June 06, 2022 @02:42PM (#31644112)
I’m not very familiar with the reasoning behind Wikipedia’s decisions. In this case, the controversies seem highly relevant to the papers being churned up. I appreciate the effort the authors of the rationwiki article put forth. It’s distributed citizen journalism.
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