Thanks for pointing this out; I agree. I feel like the TIME article was held to a standard of scrutiny that was unusual and unwarranted, and that was frustrating and felt bad.
[Edit: My reaction was informed by the “People Will Sometimes Just Lie About You” post having 330 upvotes, and the comments there suggesting many people were reluctant to update much/at all in the direction of “EA has a problem with sexual harassment” on the basis of the TIME article. Unless people had good reasons to strongly hold the prior that EA doesn’t have a problem with sexual harassment—which some may—this seemed misguided to me, given the reporter had spoken with 30 EAs who shared anecdotes that ranged from “ambiguous but worrisome” to “clearly bad.” That is relatively good evidence in the context of the kind of evidence we generally get about sexual harassment, which is notoriously difficult to study and report on, and in the absence of much other evidence about sexual harassment in EA, seemed worth taking seriously. But I also understand why some people felt differently.]
Thanks for pointing this out; I agree. I feel like the TIME article was held to a standard of scrutiny that was unusual and unwarranted, and that was frustrating and felt bad.
[Edit: My reaction was informed by the “People Will Sometimes Just Lie About You” post having 330 upvotes, and the comments there suggesting many people were reluctant to update much/at all in the direction of “EA has a problem with sexual harassment” on the basis of the TIME article. Unless people had good reasons to strongly hold the prior that EA doesn’t have a problem with sexual harassment—which some may—this seemed misguided to me, given the reporter had spoken with 30 EAs who shared anecdotes that ranged from “ambiguous but worrisome” to “clearly bad.” That is relatively good evidence in the context of the kind of evidence we generally get about sexual harassment, which is notoriously difficult to study and report on, and in the absence of much other evidence about sexual harassment in EA, seemed worth taking seriously. But I also understand why some people felt differently.]