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Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice

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Do Women Know Less About Football Than Men?

Some people are better sources of information than others. I would give greater authority to somebody's train for 10 years as a doctor rather than to somebody just sort of intuiting what my honest might be. And that's why there's no epistemic injustice or no testimonial injustice unless there's a prejudice there. So supposing it's the case that women know less about football than men. Now, in fact, my view of them is that they would be operating with a empirically reliable stereotype. Women in general aren't great football enthusiasts,. unlikely that a woman who is in the room will know the recent football is probably better to ask a bloke. But it's only at that point

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