Brilliance bias
<p>When people assume that brilliance is associated with a specific type of person, specifically a male<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1">1</a></sup>. This can be seen in the experiments of "Draw a scientist", that goes from gender-balanced to male-dominated while boys and girls go from 5 to 7 years of age. </p>
<p>The fallacy is clear: men can be brilliant, therefore to be brilliant one must be a man. </p>
<p>Tags: <a href="/tags/mansplanning">#mansplanning</a> <a href="/tags/bias">#bias</a> <a href="/tags/fallacy">#fallacy</a></p>
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<p><a class="wikilink" href="/invisible_women_-_caroline_criado_perez/">Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez</a> <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">↩</a></p>
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