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  1. Re:What achievement gap? on Winnie Wrote a Math Book · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like you're describing the "achievement gap" right there. While you may be right that there isn't very much of a pay gap given equal achievement, that fact itself supports the existence of an achievement gap. After all, if women overall have lower pay, yet get equal or greater pay given equal achievement, then logically there isn't equal achievement. Now, I don't know that I believe the axiom that given equal education/choices women aren't at a disadvantage, but at the very least according to your beliefs there exists an experience/achievement gap. That said, as a highly educated woman in a field that is traditionally male-centric, I still occasionally encounter certain assumptions about my ability (or inability) that only seem to occur in situation where the other party is aware of my gender, as opposed to online.

  2. Re:representative ? on Instrumented GIMP To Identify Usability Flaws · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This poses interesting questions. Those who are integrated enough to be willing to engage in the ingimp project are very likely to have differing behaviors or preferences. Additionally, one of the chief complaints people tend to have about usability is the inability to do something. By looking at the behavior of actions rather than desired actions, those actions which are easy to do in the current iteration will be seen as more desired, rather than simply more accessible. Meanwhile, those actions which are difficult to preform due to actual problems with the interface will be more likely to be overlooked.

  3. Re:Correlation != Causation on Compound From Olive-Pomace Oil Inhibits HIV Spread · · Score: 1

    Knowledge of something like that would actually be more useful, as it would provide a way to view the genetic basis of slowed virus spreading, allowing scientists to link it to a more easily observable trait. Since they can't go around infecting people directly, finding observable traits that may be linked to unobservable ones tends to allow geneticists and other biologists to isolate chromosomal locations of defects (or, in this case, advantages).