Haha and fair enough. I was using this to go on a bit of a rant for than responding your particular criticism of the study! I come from a social science background too and am now doing to work on closing the wage gap (research, policy, union stuff), so this issue is top of mind right now (and I’ve been spending too…

My point is that women do, absolutely, face discrimination in the hiring process and that it contributes to the gap and that yes, whether or not women you know have had a lot of good job options (and of course the arguments about hiring are generalizations and won’t apply in all cases).

You have been criticizing the statistical analysis in the article and more generally the quantitative studies that are used to demonstrate that there is a wage gap (while still acknowledging it exists) as there are too many confounding factors to believe the numbers. You use a lot of jargon to demonstrate that you…