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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Heather E Heying‏ @HeatherEHeying Oct 20

      Women report not “getting up the nerve” to ask questions, so researchers propose that “question time be unlimited” at scientific talks. Because, you know, time is a construct. If you won’t hang around waiting for others to speak, you must be a misogynist.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202743 …

      79 replies 229 retweets 1,066 likes
    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20
      Replying to @HeatherEHeying

      So infantalising. It's credible that women are less confident about asking questions but the solution to that is for them to push themselves to do it if it matters to them. Confidence will not increase by softening challenges. Women have to be able to compete with men.

      14 replies 23 retweets 295 likes
    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20
      Replying to @HPluckrose @HeatherEHeying

      Then people accuse me of expecting all women to be as confident as me but I had real panic attacks before my first Battle of Ideas last year. Had to see Dr. You might remember how nervous I still was in February. Just did 3 panels at BOI & 4 live radio shows calmly & confidently.

      2 replies 5 retweets 80 likes
      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20
      Replying to @HPluckrose @HeatherEHeying

      I'd be supportive of initiatives to help women be more outspoken if they were confidence building classes to prepare for competing equally. Was delighted my university just held a seminar on overcoming wage gap for women which was tips on negotiating salary and raises.

      6:52 PM - 20 Oct 2018
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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20
          Replying to @HPluckrose @HeatherEHeying

          Obv, this kind of thing should also be open to nervous or socially awkward men tho.

          6 replies 4 retweets 59 likes
        3. Rick Haack‏ @HaackRick Oct 20
          Replying to @HPluckrose @HeatherEHeying

          Helen, I wrote your comment down from an event you did with Heather, Peter, and James in Portland last year. May not be word for word: "If we are assuming the choices men make as the ultimate best choices, we are making men the default humans, which is sexist and infantilizing...

          2 replies 2 retweets 23 likes
        4. Rebecca Tun  🥀‏ @rebeccatun Oct 20
          Replying to @HaackRick @HPluckrose @HeatherEHeying

          I was reminded of this point too - which I feel isn’t really being echoed in what you’re saying now, Helen. I don’t think unlimited question time sounds like a great solution but nor do I think the answer is that women just have to learn to act like men to compete.

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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 21
          Replying to @rebeccatun @HaackRick @HeatherEHeying

          Realistically, we do, I'm afraid. We can't socially engineer situations in which more women struggle so they don't. When I say that women don't have to make the same choices as men to be worthwhile, I still think they have to bear the consequences of those choices - eg lower pay.

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        6. Rick Haack‏ @HaackRick Oct 21
          Replying to @HPluckrose @rebeccatun @HeatherEHeying

          Yes, and if I remember the discussion correctly, Helen, you followed up the "men-default human" premise with the idea: it follows therefore that if women aren't making the same choices men are, they're doing something wrong or have fallen prey to malicious patriarchy programming.

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        7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 21
          Replying to @HaackRick @rebeccatun @HeatherEHeying

          That is the claim, yes. I'm not sure if you see the same inconsistency that Rebecca does or not? Do you think if we accept that men & women differ on average, this gives us a responsibility to alter things to make women do the same things as men?

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        8. Rick Haack‏ @HaackRick Oct 21
          Replying to @HPluckrose @rebeccatun @HeatherEHeying

          I default to an anti-engineering bias when discussing solutions here. In the spirit of academic noblesse oblige the best that can be done is to NOT discourage women, in any reasonable context...and I think we may be there or close to there.

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        9. Rebecca Tun  🥀‏ @rebeccatun Oct 21
          Replying to @HaackRick @HPluckrose @HeatherEHeying

          I heard that Oxford University introduced the option for students to do their exams at home, as girls weren't doing as well as boys in their exams in relation to their general aptitude, and they guessed this was to do with females being more nervous under exam conditions...

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