“Even though historically men have been granted more authority than women, influence of feminism and social justice means that in many circumstances this has been mitigated or even reversed. For example, studies like Gornall and Strebulaev (2019) found that blinding evaluators to the race or sex of applicants showed that by default they were biased against white men.”
That is an unreasonably strong conclusion to draw from the study you’ve cited, not least given that even in the abstract of that study the authors make it extremely clear that “[their] experimental design is unable to capture discrimination at later stages [than the initial email/expression of interest stage]”.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3301982
Downvoted because I felt that the “though not linked to” and the hyperboles in your comment suggest that you’re coming from a subtly adversarial mindset
(I’m telling you this because I like to see more people explain their downvotes. They’re great information value. No bad feels!)
I looked for the study because I was surprised by the strength of the statement it was used to support. When I found the study, I was annoyed to find that actually, it doesn’t come close to supporting a claim of the strength made. This annoyance prompted the tone of the original post, which you have characterised fairly and was a mistake. I’ve now edited this out, because I don’t want it to distract from the claim I am making:
The study does not support the claim that is it is being used to support.
I’ll concede that the post could definitely be better than it is and as the primary author I take responsibility for post being somewhat light on references. However part of this was that the post this is responding to received many comments by people with views similar to mine, so I updated towards this post being less high priority and decided to just publish what we had.
“Even though historically men have been granted more authority than women, influence of feminism and social justice means that in many circumstances this has been mitigated or even reversed. For example, studies like Gornall and Strebulaev (2019) found that blinding evaluators to the race or sex of applicants showed that by default they were biased against white men.”
That is an unreasonably strong conclusion to draw from the study you’ve cited, not least given that even in the abstract of that study the authors make it extremely clear that “[their] experimental design is unable to capture discrimination at later stages [than the initial email/expression of interest stage]”. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3301982
[Edited for tone]
Downvoted because I felt that the “though not linked to” and the hyperboles in your comment suggest that you’re coming from a subtly adversarial mindset
(I’m telling you this because I like to see more people explain their downvotes. They’re great information value. No bad feels!)
I looked for the study because I was surprised by the strength of the statement it was used to support. When I found the study, I was annoyed to find that actually, it doesn’t come close to supporting a claim of the strength made. This annoyance prompted the tone of the original post, which you have characterised fairly and was a mistake. I’ve now edited this out, because I don’t want it to distract from the claim I am making:
The study does not support the claim that is it is being used to support.
I’ll concede that the post could definitely be better than it is and as the primary author I take responsibility for post being somewhat light on references. However part of this was that the post this is responding to received many comments by people with views similar to mine, so I updated towards this post being less high priority and decided to just publish what we had.