re: Stanford surgery residency chose 12 females and 1 male

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777Tiger

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I'd let you pilot a plane I'm in ANY time, as long as you have access to a couple of chilled Shiners.

First time, actually. But it fit the situation.

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The best doctors I’ve had are women.

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and that ties up a nurse because he has to be in the exam room because you're a dude

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Do you have any proof or validity that those chosen were not worthy of their spots?

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Okay. Let’s focus on just one variable: sex.

To make things easy and simple, let’s just say that the same number of men and women applied for general surgery and they were all equally qualified. (This would give the benefit of doubt to Stanford btw. I’m not trying to hide the actual statistics, I just don’t feel like looking them up)

Under these circumstances, without any bias, running a fair match, you’d expect a general surgery residency program to match 50% women and %50 men.

Of course, you’ll have some variation. Some programs will randomly match 60/40, others 30/70, and so and so forth.


The likelihood of matching women to 11/12 spots would be 12/4,096 or 0.29%.


That’s a zero and a decimal point in front of 29, in case you missed it.


Without digging into the statistics any further, 0.29% tells you it’s more likely that bias was involved than these results occurring randomly.

This indicates Stanford general surgery residency program ranked women preferentially and discriminated against men.


So, while I couldn’t say whether or not those that matched with Stanford gen surg are qualified/deserving, it’s more likely than not that other more deserving/qualified candidates were passed over just because they were born men. And that’s the real issue here.

The new Stanford radiology class is entirely male and they took a lot of criticism in the replies.

LINK

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The new Stanford radiology class is entirely male and they took a lot of criticism in the replies.

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Funny, there wasn’t a thread about it on the OT with a bunch of outrage.

Which is kind of my point.

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will raise him or her to strive for the best and know that sometimes things in the world are out of their control. So if they have to attend Columbia over Harvard, they will still find a way to be successful.

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Supporting anything other than a meritocracy makes you a racist/sexist and a loser.

Abita moves to the northeast for a couple years has his first clam chowder and lobster roll and all of a sudden hates men

Just Google it

It's obvious just based on numbers thay there are more black women surgeons than white males, it's science