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Old 09-09-2010, 03:36 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by charleski View Post
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.
Your point was that the gender break down of Booker winners contained no evidence of gender bias. I re-framed your claim to point out that it implied that about two thirds of winners were men. Does that not prove, just as a statistical matter, that the Booker is biased in favour of men?
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