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- From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Sexual Discrimination
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:01:14 GMT
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- In article <93026.133156RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
- >-From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- >-
- >- noraa@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (aaron.l.hoffmeyer) posts:
-
- >- You would have a good case if you can show that, for your
- >- sample, the same percentage of men and women demanded custody
- >- and they were equally suited to have custody awarded (by
- >- whatever reasonable metric for this you care to use).
- >-
- >- Personally I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the courts
- >- have an unfair bias toward awarding custody to the mother, based
- >- on anecdotal evidence. But on the face of it the data you've
- >- presented here doesn't really add up to anything.
- >-
- > I think you are overstating your case to say that the data do not
- >(data is plural of datum) add up to anything. You really should say that
- >the data are not decisive. But then decisive data are almost never avaiable.
- >The data presented are a prima facie case that discrimination exists
-
- No it ISN'T! Any more than the fact that blacks and women are
- way underrepresented among workimg EE's relative to their % of
- the population is "prima facie" evidence for discrimination
- in this field. There *might* be discrimination; it doesn't
- rule it out; but it doesn't support it, either.
-
-
- ---peter
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