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To: Poet who wrote (4608)	4/26/2001 3:05:52 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

Well, I took the gender one. I came out with a minor bias toward science and males. This seems to be a rather self-evident conclusion to come to, though. What I would term a DUH. In our society, you meet far more male than female scientists. So is it really a gender bias, or a recognition of what actually is? (Is, for example, associating males more strongly than females with driving cars a gender bias on the observer's part? Or simply a recognition that statistically males do more driving than females?) Once again, the definition of bias (which was not given in the test) becomes critical. Define bias right, and everybody in the world is biased about everything. That sort of finding assures more funding for anti-bias organizations, but is it really helpful?