The above graphic, from today's
NY Times, is intended to show bias in economics textbooks. I am not so sure that is cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 right interpretation.
In cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 world, only 4 percent of
CEOs (of Fortune 500 companies) are women, so does cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 figure of 6 percent shown above demonstrate underrepresentation of women in textbooks or an accurate reflection of reality? Similarly, policymakers mentioned in texts are most often Presidents or Fed chairs. Historically, only one woman has been a member of this group. Economists mentioned in texts are most often important historical figures (Smith, Ricardo, Keynes) or prominent modern economists, such as Nobel laureates. Once again, 8 percent is higher than for cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 population being sampled.
To be sure, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 role of women in society is changing, and in some circles cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re is some bias. But measuring cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 amount of bias is hard. The graphic above is not a useful gauge.
Or maybe in my next edition, I should add a discussion of Paulina Volcker's disinflation.
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Update: Some twitter commentators seemed to misinterpret my cheeky last line. At cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 risk of being pedantic, let me explain: Textbooks reflect reality, which includes a history in which men played a larger role than women in some spheres of life. If a history professor were to write a text on cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 history of presidential politics, and you were to find that cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re were more mentions of men than women in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 book, would that be evidence that cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 historian is biased? I don't think so. The writer has to reflect what occurred and is not free to change cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 gender of historical protagonists.