Case by case. She's not had any problems getting employed or experienced racism at work. Her mother did face some. There was evidence.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
You probably also agree that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Replying to @fronxer
Sure but we cannot assume racism and/or sexism on the basis of not being able to prove it doesn't exist. Just lose all credibility.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
There are philosophical (and also scientific) limits to being able to relate social phenomena to concrete individual cases.
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Replying to @fronxer
Yes. Often because they're not relevant. I have to go out now but I think we've come to an end anyway. Just getting very vague now.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
(“Often because they’re not relevant” is a statistical statement about the unknown and uninvestigated.) Thanks for the chat!
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Replying to @fronxer
No, often is not really statistical. I suspect I think race & gender is relevant to way fewer outcomes than you do.
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Replying to @fronxer
There is no way to falsify a claim that is based on vague ideas of social phenomenon affecting things non-explicitly.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @fronxer
I don't think I got turned down for my last job interview because I am a woman or coz I'm disabled. You might think I did.
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We can only go on evidence which is that women are overrepresented in the field & I was offered accommodation for my disability.
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