Should I let it bug me that authors of paper I reviewed assumed I'm a man? ("We thank reviewer for... his comments").
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Replying to @clelandpsych
You should incorrectly gender the authors in your response to their revisions
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Replying to @DrGBuckingham @clelandpsych
hah that's what I was thinking, but I'm glad you suggested it first ;)
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Replying to @willjharrison @clelandpsych
I guess it might also be a language thing. Perhaps 'reviewer' is a male gendered thing in most languages? Easy mistake to make if so
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I'm confused, which language has person-related nouns that are male even when the person is not male? In Greek we have m/f/neutral but
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Replying to @o_guest @DrGBuckingham and
E.g child = rebyenok (m). So you would say "rebenok, on..." = "the child, he..." even if it's a girl.
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Replying to @doctorwhy @DrGBuckingham and
Very interesting. Thanks for this. So male is the default, or just coincidence?
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Replying to @o_guest @doctorwhy and
Anyone interested in collaborating to replicate and update (20 years later), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4293036/ …? I'm game!
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