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From: gazit@duke.cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit)
Newsgroups: soc.men,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Men barred from primatology conference
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Date: 28 Nov 90 21:23:42 GMT
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In article <8283@dog.ee.lbl.gov> austern@ux5.lbl.gov (Matt Austern) writes:
>In particular, it is claimed that male and female primatologists
>report very different patterns of behavior; men seem, for example, to
>be much more prone to report male dominance.

So it is a subject for *research*.

Modern scientific research has as basic features peer-reviews 
(e.g. anonymous referees), and repetition of experiments.

I have no idea who is right in the above debate, but it seems to me that 
if we want to find out then we have to give both groups the opportunity
to present their data/analysis and either to reach a conclusion or
to decide what new experiments should be done and/or what experiments
should be repeated.

The idea of women-only conference contradict this very 
method of research that has been so successful for so long.