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When I saw it, I knew I should save it. I’m not an economist…or really anything…other than a guy working to understand stuff. It seems it could apply across a broad spectrum of human experience.

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Would almost certainly apply to Trump haters & supporters, on Trump vs Obama policy quotes without names or dates.

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That's a great link and agree this sort of analysis should spread across most areas of study, as well as what you call "human experience".

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Orchestras had a gender bias with tryouts. They solved it by putting the musician to be evaluated behind a screen. No doubt there is a similar problem with research funding. For a variety of reasons it would be more difficult here but no less beneficial if it could be done.

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I think the blind auditions turned out to favor men; Andrew Gilman wrote about this.

Best to assume “nothing holds up”.

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I don't know if that is true but it's my understanding that when the evaluators weren't blinded, it favored men more.

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