I get really annoyed by the number of people I see who are like “Alice Wu’s study shows that the economics profession is sexist!”
like, that study is only surprising to someone who has literally never been on EJMR
saying “this study shows the economics profession is sexist” is equivalent to saying “the existence of this creepy internet forum shows the economics profession is sexist” but I guess the second one sounds less authoritative so people say the first?
(”study finds elevated use of homophobic slurs on 4chan”)
not to mention that afaik there are no equivalent sites for e.g. math or physics, so using the discourse on this site to explain the underrepresentation of women in economics (where they are much better represented than in math) lacks a certain parsimony