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ab_testing
1594 days ago
Looks are women are paid less than men across the board.
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cbsmith
1594 days ago
Honestly, it looks more like there's a lot of women with very low earnings, that perhaps skews the rest of the data.
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kevin_thibedeau
1594 days ago
Such datasets have been demonstrated to exhibit Simpson's Paradox.
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anonydsfsfs
1594 days ago
Correct. The first example on the Wikipedia page is a gender bias study that appears to show a bias against women in college admissions, but there was actually a bias
in favor
of women:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox#UC_Berkele...
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svachalek
1594 days ago
It's interesting to see that specifically in HR, which in my experience has a strong female majority including the leadership.
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