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by enraged_camel 4811 days ago
>>Anyone who believes that women inherently do worse in STEM subjects needs to be called out, in the most negative of terms. No one should say it, period.

I don't think the point is that they inherently do worse, but rather that, currently and on average, they do worse.

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Exactly. I don't get why whenever someone talks about correlation, people suddenly assume he is claiming causation and start beating him to death.

Correlation is correlation: whether or not there is a causal relationship doesn't change the correlation.