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2019-07-15 Science & Technology

Field experiment uses fake emails to measure gender and racial bias among startup investors, [finds bias against white males].

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Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-07-15 08:23|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 A progress report for progressives.

Posted by Bobby 2019-07-15 08:52|| 2019-07-15 08:52|| Front Page Top

Surely they are all bigoted, racist, and evil.

[sarc off]

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-15 08:57|| 2019-07-15 08:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Hold on there, perfesser... your test of bias is based on - what, willingness to hear a blind pitch? Is this a joke?

Has it occurred to the researchers that maybe junior VC's get brownie points for going through the motions of hearing BS pitches from minority entrepreneurs?

Is this what passes for a rigorously empirical social science experiment these days?

Posted by Lex 2019-07-15 10:23|| 2019-07-15 10:23|| Front Page Top

#4

This just proves that most people are gullible.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-15 11:37|| 2019-07-15 11:37|| Front Page Top

#5 I worked in venture capital before retiring. Lex is correct. Unsolicited proposals with no connection to know referrers go in the trash, or are routed to the most junior team members. Who are free to virtue signal since since nothing ever comes of such referrals.

This 'study' is meaningless, and a Stanford prof should know that.

Posted by Nero 2019-07-15 11:57|| 2019-07-15 11:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Is this what passes for a rigorously empirical social science experiment these days?

And has this ever been different? social science is and has always been oxymoronic.

Posted by AlanC 2019-07-15 15:05|| 2019-07-15 15:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Anti social pseudoscience.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-07-15 16:16|| 2019-07-15 16:16|| Front Page Top

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