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throw_somewhere t1_j1tlb4y wrote

Reply to comment by nocuzzlikeyea13 in [OC] Women face greater Imposter Syndrome than Men, when starting Software Engineering Degrees, despite having similar high school averages by GeorgeDaGreat123

Poorly constructed datasets don't get a pass just because they have popular results. All data deserves to be scrutinized.

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nocuzzlikeyea13 t1_j1xamli wrote

Have you heard of something called a Bayesian Prior? Colloquially, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This isn't an extraordinary claim, if anything it's extremely mundane. The high level of scrutiny here isn't actually very justified at all.

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throw_somewhere t1_j1xfpjb wrote

Friend your first half is correct but is irrelevant to the back half. The scientific enterprise falls apart if we just hand-wave anything that agrees with us. For real dude, logically what's wrong with you.

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nocuzzlikeyea13 t1_j20efdl wrote

I'm not sure what you mean about handwaving everything that agrees with us? I'm not saying this data should be published, I'm just saying that it's surprising the level of pushback it's getting on a reddit sub, the pushback generally seeming to reject the results. The results are not surprising at all. I don't see the harm in someone taking some anecdotal data in their own class and sharing it here. I do see the harm in a lot of these comments basically saying, "but women don't really earn good grades, but this headline is so flawed, but but but" when the conclusions of this anecdotal story align with more robust data. It would be like if you say your friend died in a drunk driving accident, so drunk driving is bad, and everyone flooded you with, "but that's a sample size of 1!!!!!!" Like... Yea but also we know this is a real thing so chill.

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