There is certainly a tendency to reject statistical facts if they don't fit your ideology - tho' I suspect it's easier to spot other people doing this than ourselves!
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Replying to @ELTAuthor @YeyoZa and
Which is why it is better not have an ideology which requires facts to fit it and go instead with what is indicated and insist on treating everyone as individuals anyway for ethical reasons.
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Certainly ideology should have no place in deciding questions which are essentially factual (albeit difficult to answer). Though I think whatever the answer to the biology/culture issue, there are still legitimate ethical debates about education, policy, etc.
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These debates should be separate but they tend to leak into each other, with people refusing to accept factual evidence for ethical reasons.
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Yes. People will claim men & women have fundamentally different capacities & traits to advocate rigid gender roles or that they are identical to claim discrimination could be the only reason 50/50 representation everywhere. In reality, distributions of traits often look like thispic.twitter.com/8NwmgYvrWq
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