Is female specialists more reliable?

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Imagine a practice of male or large female economists (otherwise the same) to the public. Which would you expect to be more convincing? I think my first guess is “not”, in accordance with a popular judgment of English politician Michael Gove Brexit campaign people are “there are experts”. We did not know that the next guess would be “people” and there would be “men” based on research that is still there “Government Gap” People accept men and women. But when economists perform this experience in Hans Henrik Sievvertsen and Sarah Smith In real life, The results have proven to make mistakes in my two numbers.

Sievvertsen and Smith showed a number of statements about 3,000 people in the United States, a number of statements on financial issues, the financial regulation and a number of statements from the AI. A real life named Economist said that he was strongly agreed, agreed, agreed, agreed, agreed or agreed or agreed or seriously agreed. Then they asked the person for his opinions. Expert reviews withdrew from a panel Managed by University of ChicagoRegularly reflects the views of leading academic economists in the best US universities on various topics.

The study found that public opinion on these issues was affected by economists. More interesting, female economists were more effective than a man. The added effect of seeing a statement expressed by a female specialist was 20 percent more than the influence of seeing the same opinion by a male specialist.

Why can it be? In search of an answer, researchers repeat the experience, but this time reported information about the information about the credentials of the expert (name and the name of the university). If the only thing they know was “economists”, the gender gap was destroyed: men and women believed the people evenly.

For Sievertsen and Smith, the best explanation for the findings is the fact that the members of the people become a hypothesis of its assumption: women have to become a professor in influential universities, women should be more impressive. “Only the successful women, who seemed to be stereotypically, they” did “can be taken better than men’s colleagues,” they wrote on their paper.

Some other studies found a similar phenomenon. Just one practiceScientists ran slightly Game-based tests In Ethiopia, people are randomly to learn that a man or a female leader (in the same way) is following the recommendations in a different way. This experiment found that people were less likely to watch the leadership of the female leader. However, when researchers have high capacity of people, people are more likely to follow the “high ability” religion “high ability” from the “high ability” men.

People are correct to suppose to be a woman successful in an area that dominates a male considerable More than male colleagues? Or is this very unfair for men? Smith told me, “We will not say that women should be better to give me the economy.” But certainly, we know that the process is more stereotiped against women below. “

In a study, for example, machine learning methods were used to study voice entries of more than 1,700 economic seminars. This analysis The female speakers found that the male speakers were cut more often and earlier and previously cut and more than men and more men than men and members of the audience. The research was also more likely to give the questions of men’s leaders, thanking the questions.

Another learn Men, regardless of what the author research documents or singular writes, the men were given about the same rate, women received more author’s documents.

It is correct that the community members are correct to assume that a certain man is higher for women in dominating professionals, it is useful to know that it is possible.

If so, tell me a great woman in a field that dominates a man and you want to do something social, reject or discount or discount your audience or discount or discount your experience or discount. In fact, they can think: “He must be seriously impressive to where he is going to. I’m going to listen to what you say.”

sarah.oconnor@ft.com