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by minimaxir 4484 days ago
This was flagged off the front page, which is rather unfortunate.

From the "Gender and Performance" chart, the distribution of the values appears to have a correlation of 0, so I'm not sure how a positive correlation is inferred.

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Thanks for the question! The correlation here is r=0.38 with a p-value < 2e-15. We've added this note to the post.

(Note: I'm one of the authors of the post.)