(May 25, 2016 at 10:35 am)pool the great Wrote: Well why don't you use the "evidence" you posted which apparently conducted a survey consisting of a few hundred people and tell me the probability of my boss being unconsciously discriminated against females,taking into consideration the billions of people that live on earth?
You my brother, I'm getting more of a sister vibe but hey what the hell, need to stop generalizing people and start treating them as individuals. You yourself said that you were against gender stereotyping but you have no problem stereotyping the whole male population as discriminators against women.
Furthermore your conclusions from that study are falsely arrived at.
I'll tell you why, imagine I conducted a survey consisting of a few hundred women from my community questioning whether they are straight or gay. If the majority of the women responded as being straight, do you think it'd be reasonable to conclude from the study that women are straight? Because that is the analogical equivalent of how you arrived at your conclusions with the study you posted.
The whole point of these studies is so you can make inferences to the general population that the sample is supposed to represent. The population of interest in the case of this particular study is, of course, academics hiring students for positions in the lab and not employers in general, but then again, if that's really what you just focused on, then you're being either intentionally or unintentionally obtuse. Because the whole fucking point is that subconscious gender discrimination exists, and if it exists in academic settings, then this suggests it's not implausible that this may be the case in other similar work-related settings.
By the way, according to this study, BOTH male and female academics displayed this subconscious form of discrimination. So had you read the article properly, you would've noticed that instead of accusing me of charging the whole male population as discriminators against women.
Furthermore, it wasn't just a matter of conducting surveys. You had better reread, at least, the procedure section in that article. Make sure you click on the full text tab. This was more an experiment assessing group differences, with random participant assignment to one of two groups.
Make of it what you will. That's just one study. There are more, but I'm not going to go around and post a whole list for you to examine, especially when I sense that you're not exactly open to being corrected by these studies.