Cowen: Men undervalue smart women by projecting male variance in conscientiousness
Tyler Cowen · Reviving a Culture of Innovation with Tyler Cowen · Joe Lonsdale · Feb 16, 2022 · at 3:28
Tyler Cowen argues that gender differences in conscientiousness variance cause male evaluators to systematically misprice female reliability.
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“Women on average are more conscientious than men, and men have a higher variance of conscientiousness. So the least conscientious men wreak more destruction and havoc, right? So women have lower variance of conscientiousness. That means if you find a smart woman, you're undervaluing her as a man because you're mentally modeling her reliabilities sort of unreliable the way you might think about a man.”
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