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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 09:32:00 CST
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- To those who *groan* when it is suggested that the topic of sports is
- somehow not relevant in discussions of preferential treatment,
- perhaps I did not make myself clear.
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- For example, we have had discussions and presentations in seminars
- on the topic of expertise using examples
- of expert athletes. We have discussed sports in the context of judgment and
- decision-making. We use the term "golf score" to describe the type of
- data analysis being done.
- However, I perceive that sports talk by professor-student
- ("who won the game last night",
- "how did So-and-so do on the golf course yesterday",
- "Wow, did you see ______ catch that pass? for example)
- as irrelevant to class and so should be discussed outside the class
- room rather than wasting the time of people (both female AND MALE) who
- are there to discuss the topic of the course. It has been my experience
- (sample bias recognized) that few if any female students engage in the
- conversations and students I have discussed this with have similar feelings.
- Hence, my inference that it is predominately a male behavior.
-