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How It Works February 18, 2008

Filed under: bias, epistemology, fallacy, gender, sex — Jender @ 9:55 am

From xkcdHow It WorksThanks, Mr Jender!

 

7 Responses to “How It Works”

  1. jj Says: February 18, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    That is just how it happens. I expect this illustrates how salient their gender becomes when there are only a few women in a class.

  2. RS Says: February 18, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    On the merrier side…

    xkcd is great stuff. :D

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  5. Moody Says: March 15, 2008 at 6:22 pm

    Could someone deconstruct this in more detail please. I’m not so good at such things really, and some of my friends just don’t get the joke.

  6. Jender Says: March 15, 2008 at 7:44 pm

    It shows different inferences being made when the person making a mistake is male and when they’re female. In the former case, the mistake is taken to show nothing but an individual failure. In the second, it’s taken to show a failure of women in general. I’m pretty sure that I’ve come across studies showing that that this goes on, though I can’t give you references.

  7. Moody Says: March 16, 2008 at 12:16 am

    Yeah, it’s the same as “Women can’t drive, horrible at math and science, let emotions guide them instead of logic”, it permeates our culture. Though most people (men) won’t admit that they actually believe that, (as that wouldn’t be pc).

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