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Re:Research Finds No Gender Bias in Academic Science by Loquebantur on Sunday April 30, 2023 @01:05PM (#35764491)
A correlation between ethnic groups and economic disparity is not indicative of causation, much less of what the cause might be?

People having problems with even simple statistics definitely is a cause for racism on the other hand.

I find economists often to be surprisingly bad at math.

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Re:Research Finds No Gender Bias in Academic Science by tomrod on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @08:22AM (#35786327)
> A correlation between ethnic groups and economic disparity is not indicative of causation, much less of what the cause might be?

Correct. We typically understand the actual cause in the US -- historical policies promoting detrimental economic outcomes to targeted ethnic groups. I'm not sure why you interpreted my positive finding of relationship into a normative declaration of causation.

> I find economists often to be surprisingly bad at math.

Which ones?

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