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07/13/2004: "Insidious sexism? Lies, Dang Lies, and Stats."

Via a Think Again comment, a study about a 1973 Cal-Berkeley sex discrimination suit. Check the table at the very bottom. Of the six departments, each and every one admitted a higher percentage of female applicants than male applicants. Yet as a whole, the university admitted a lower percentage of female applicants than male applicants.

Such is the danger of lawsuits by statistics. If someone can think of a nice, pithy inference to draw, please add it to the comments.