I have now been informed why accounting for choices women make abt which jobs they do & what hours they work is a mathematical error when looking at it statistically & I'm quite willing to accept that it is but this might just mean that looking at it statistically is not helpful
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If stats can't help us with this, they can't, but then we'd need people to stop pointing at them to say there's a wage gap and it shows discrimination. They won't do that so I think I'll just have to say stats don't give us the causes of the gap & point out that choices do matter
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Maybe that's responding to mathematical error with a mathematical error but I'm not at all sure this comes down to maths anyway. Surely a wage gap which persists when those variables are controlled for means more than one where it doesn't. In real terms. Apparently, that's naive.
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Most interesting argument was that it denies women's agency to suggest they are free to make their own choices because this suggests they cannot choose not to enter jobs which are said to have high levels of discrimination. My head hurts.
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Not a mathematical error. Both sides are failing to consider plausible alternative interpretations of the regressions, which are consistent either with 1) women freely choosing lower-paying occupations, or 2) women being shut out of the higher paying ones. Other data support #1.
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