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by ab_testing 1594 days ago
Looks are women are paid less than men across the board.
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Honestly, it looks more like there's a lot of women with very low earnings, that perhaps skews the rest of the data.
Such datasets have been demonstrated to exhibit Simpson's Paradox.
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...
It's interesting to see that specifically in HR, which in my experience has a strong female majority including the leadership.