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by rayiner 4993 days ago
Discussions of gender equality: the only subject on Hacker News or Reddit where someone will, with a straight face, try to refute an empirical study with anecdotal evidence.
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I think you exaggerate. Most of these discussions are not about empirical studies but about opinion pieces.
You were replying to an article involving an empirical study.
I did not say the study is false or anything. I just tried to explain the sentiment of people accused of fostering a sexist industry.

For what it's worth (although this is tangential), I think the study is interesting but I can still think of a lot of questions to ask. And it wasn't about IT, the experiment was done with lab jobs.