Qiaochu_Yuan comments on [Link] Economists' views differ by gender - Less Wrong

7 Post author: GLaDOS 31 December 2012 01:34PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (28)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 31 December 2012 11:36:25PM 2 points [-]

A weak test of the signaling hypothesis would be to poll economists' colleagues and see what they think about them. Presumably if the hypothesis were true, endorsement of compassion-signaling economic and social policies would be correlated with your colleagues thinking that you are generally a compassionate person.