Availability bias informed by personal experience affects our perception of rate of incidence a lot. So I added this stat.
“Edit: I have personally experienced this more than three times in less than one year of attending EA events and that is far too many times.”
I have two other female friends I talk to who are not ready to speak up yet who were involved longer and report higher numbers.
Also, the post is not optimized for analytical/argumentative quality. My only goal is to speak my mind, my authentic experience and bring awareness that this happened to me and others I know. I would like to see these issues fixed but I am not overly invested in it yet, because there are also lots of interesting things to do in the world.
Yep, you are totally right about availability bias and I don’t mean to downplay at all your experience—that’s awful and I’d be delighted to see more efforts by EA groups to prevent this sort of thing.
And yeah, if you don’t feel like optimizing for argumentative quality that’s valid and my comment isn’t worth minding in that case! Not your job to fix these issues, and thank you for taking the time to bring awareness.
Experienced what 3 times in a year? Being asked out multiple times by the same person? Not having your no respected? Asked to join a polycule? I don’t get what the grievances are tbh
Availability bias informed by personal experience affects our perception of rate of incidence a lot. So I added this stat.
“Edit: I have personally experienced this more than three times in less than one year of attending EA events and that is far too many times.”
I have two other female friends I talk to who are not ready to speak up yet who were involved longer and report higher numbers.
Also, the post is not optimized for analytical/argumentative quality. My only goal is to speak my mind, my authentic experience and bring awareness that this happened to me and others I know. I would like to see these issues fixed but I am not overly invested in it yet, because there are also lots of interesting things to do in the world.
Yep, you are totally right about availability bias and I don’t mean to downplay at all your experience—that’s awful and I’d be delighted to see more efforts by EA groups to prevent this sort of thing.
And yeah, if you don’t feel like optimizing for argumentative quality that’s valid and my comment isn’t worth minding in that case! Not your job to fix these issues, and thank you for taking the time to bring awareness.
:)
Experienced what 3 times in a year? Being asked out multiple times by the same person? Not having your no respected? Asked to join a polycule? I don’t get what the grievances are tbh