What if "not surprised" means just that, that I find such a possibility quite plausible, without it being "what I suspected all along"?o.pwuaioc wrote:If by "not surprised" you mean "this confirms what I suspected about women all along even though I conducted no such study of my own", then how does it not indicate prejudice?If it was statistically, rigorously verified that women (on average) look to get different things from their hobbies than men do I would not be surprised (I don't know if it is true or if any such proper studies have been undertaken in the past). Does the fact that I would not be surprised at such an outcome mean that I am sexist?
Also, maybe it is really prejudice (and I am sexist) if what I "suspect" about women is that on average they are different from men (and what I mean by "on average" is more of their statistical distributions than their average "score" on this or that).
Note I am not saying inferior or superior, or making prejudiced judgements on individuals, nor saying that some differences are fundamental instead of e.g. a product of different treatment and opportunities by society etc. which are external factors (which I am thoroughly convinced are at least a big part of some "observable" differences).
Ivo.


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