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5	Another Perspective on the Wage Gap That's not exactly how statistical studies are done. Statistical methods are very powerful in revealing trends, and while they can't always "prove" a specific cause, they can often disprove many hypotheses. But let's get concrete, because here's the point: the consensus of the active, scientific, publishing economic community in this field is that there exists a marginal pay gap which cannot be well-explained by all of these potential nuances, and which is likely due primarily to bias (on the or…	/r/PussyPassDenied	13/04/17 08:40 AM
5	Another Perspective on the Wage Gap "That you probably need to look for" Dude I'm just a PhD student in astrophysics. Just because there exist more details and "possible explanations" for a wage gap than we can list in any given thread doesn't mean the economists who devote their lives to studying complex and difficult problems are incapable of taking all of that into account. No model is perfect but experts who have spent their entire lives devoted to training themselves in studying difficult problems with nuance through the scie…	/r/PussyPassDenied	13/04/17 08:09 AM
4	Another Perspective on the Wage Gap Much more complicated than this. Actual studies (reputable, peer-reviewed) still find a bias toward men when accounting for the sort of mitigating details you're describing. Although it gets down to "only" something like 5%, that's still a huge difference economically.	/r/PussyPassDenied	13/04/17 06:43 AM

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