ignored and explained away with bis
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Replying to @MikeZ2111 @marclamonthill
but if you can be fairly confident that unconscious bias exists, and you know there's a disparate outcome...
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why ignore the relevance of bias? Agreed that there are some rational reasons for "unfair" or "biased" practices.
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but to say that bias has NO effect on these seems to me like sticking your head in the sand.
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also, if the ultimate source of the disparity is not bias, then it is something innate
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girls "naturally" raise their hands less, blacks "naturally" achieve less in education.
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it's either nature or nurture, and unless people are intentionally encouraging girls to speak less in class...
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unconscious bias (both individual and baked into society) is the "nurture" factor
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Obviously you can understand why people might be resistant to "naturally" inferior/superior arguments
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not only are such arguments very very VERY hard to support with evidence from DNA
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they are also sort of "god of the gaps"-ish. There's no evidence for them, but that must be the answer!
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