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ismaildonmez | 3 years ago

> Many orchestras switched to blind auditions, and it drastically increased the number of female musicians.

This is incorrect, see https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/05/11/did-blind-...

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sarchertech|3 years ago

That blog post isn't nearly strong enough to support the statement that "this is incorrect".

The conclusion of the unrefereed blog post is merely the much more equivocal:

" What about that much-publicized “50 percent” claim, or for that matter the not-so-well-publicized but even more dramatic “increases by severalfold”? I have no idea. I’ll reserve judgment until someone can show me where that result appears in the published paper. It’s gotta be there somewhere."

ismaildonmez|3 years ago

You should have quoted the sentence just before:

> I agree that blind auditions can make sense—even if they do not have the large effects claimed in that 2000 paper, or indeed even if they have no aggregate relative effects on men and women at all.

so, what the OP said

> Many orchestras switched to blind auditions, and it drastically increased the number of female musicians.

is incorrect because quoting again from the article:

> or indeed even if they have no aggregate relative effects on men and women at all.