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

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Comment author: ewbrownv 02 January 2013 09:14:08PM 8 points [-]

If true, this is fairly strong evidence that the effort to turn the study of economics into a science has failed. If the beliefs of professional economists about their field of study are substantially affected by their gender, they obviously aren't arriving at those beliefs by a reliable objective process.