I want to study gender because there are things to know about it and discovering/learning them is very interesting. This is the only justification one needs for studying a thing. HOWEVER...
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What about when (if) understanding biological gender differences reveals a similar proposition to be right...? Let's say we find that women on average have higher intelligence than men. Assuming I'm an employer looking to hire, I should evaluate applicants based on...
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individual merit (we're talking population averages, after all). However, wouldn't it be more efficient for me to call to interview less men? Assuming the position benefit from intelligence, that is?
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No, I don't think so. You would ask for certain evidence of fitness for the job and know that more of one sex than the other were likely to meet them but that there would be both because we're overlapping populations.
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Sure, there would certainly be suitable candidates from both sexes. But, all other things being equal, there is a higher chance of a suitable candidate from one of the populations. Thus I'd call *less* men (proportional to pop. avg. diff, say 45-55) not exclusively women.
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You would? I don't know then. Do you think we should pretend gender differences don't exist to prevent this from happening?
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Poorly phrased by me, I'm asking if it wouldn't be the best & most efficient way to conduct interviews, not suggesting i'd do it that way. And as for your second point, I don't suggest pretending anything, but it at least gives me pause.
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Yes, OK. I have been thinking that people's CVs would speak for themselves but maybe some would think this way. And maybe it would be more efficient to do so. In that case, we'd need an additional ethical element.
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But you wouldn’t know what other employers were doing. They could have discriminated too much and reversed the situation. I think you’d be better off ignoring that data point.
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How kind!
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Sociological evidence is that gender differences in pay, employment, housework, education, legal rights and social attitudes closed dramatically over last 100 yrs. But some things, like childbearing, won’t.
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