You could say “well, why make the observation?” to which I’d reply “Because you’re an attentive chap, and you’re in a car and observing regularities in your environment. Other people are interesting, and their gender cannot not be seen when looking into other cars.”
“Why make that observation?” is a bad question. Whether or not you have a reason that morally justifies you to make that observation has little to do with the issue of whether making that observation and telling other people about it, correlates with having misogynist tendencies.
You can measure misogynist tendencies with an implicit association tests. Misogynist tendencies are something real that you can measure in the lab.
The test doesn’t care about whether you can provide some intellectual justification for your observations.
You can measure misogynist tendencies with an implicit association tests. Misogynist tendencies are something real that you can measure in the lab. The test doesn’t care about whether you can provide some intellectual justification for your observations.
So by that definition it’s perfectly possible for lack of “misogynist tendencies” to constitute a bias.
“Why make that observation?” is a bad question. Whether or not you have a reason that morally justifies you to make that observation has little to do with the issue of whether making that observation and telling other people about it, correlates with having misogynist tendencies.
You can measure misogynist tendencies with an implicit association tests. Misogynist tendencies are something real that you can measure in the lab. The test doesn’t care about whether you can provide some intellectual justification for your observations.
So by that definition it’s perfectly possible for lack of “misogynist tendencies” to constitute a bias.