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Old 09-09-2010, 02:10 PM   #31
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Or, to put it differently; men won just under two thirds of the last forty Booker Prizes - which is about the same gender split as this year's short-list.
In 2006 two-thirds of the shortlist was written by women and a woman won. Does that then prove the Booker is biased towards women? Of course not. The fact is there's no evidence of gender bias at all.
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