Gender Gap in Magic

[ysabetwordsmith]

People are more impressed by male magicians than female ones -- until they try to analyze how the trick was done.

So there's an interesting reason why some people may be less gender-prejudiced than others, if they habitually tend to analyze things.  I do that, but then it breaks most tests about gender bias.  ("Which of these pictures is more competent, Jack or Jane?"  "No information about competence has been provided.")

Comments

[kellan_the_tabby]

I do a lot of online surveys & stuff for pocket change & that sort INFURIATES me. They'll give me a series of photos that are extreme closeups of peoples' faces & ask me things like 'is this person competent/polite/whatever' & I'm like I DO NOT KNOW, I DO NOT HAVE ANY INFORMATION RELEVANT TO THAT JUDGEMENT.

I tend to wind up giving all the brown people & women really high scores, just to mess with their numbers.

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

*high five*

If I can identify what they want or expect, or some irritating thing society does, then I do the opposite and screw their results into the wall. :D

But there's a grain of truth in it, too. If I needed to save the world, I'd prefer a poor black woman over a white man who probably had everything handed to him. We have a shopping cart full of raided groceries and we need to save the world from an alien invasion.

I'm betting the black lady knows bleach + ammonia = tear gas, because you have to know what NOT to mix while cleaning things.

Re: Yes ...

[kellan_the_tabby]

oh HELL yeah