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I Don't Want My Son to Be Discriminated as an Engineer

I don't want my sister-in-law to be discriminated against as an engineer just because on average there are going to be fewer women who are engineers but not all what my son. I don't want them as individuals to be treated any differently even if the overall distributions are different and that's a again it's a hard thing for some people to get their head around which is how can I treat you as an individual right you? So we acknowledge these differences on average doesn't mean we treat any individual correct That's that's what economists called statistical discrimination yeah. was a paper done where you're speaking at UNLV right after this was a paper doing men betting gambling when there were attractive

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