2 thoughts on “Harvard Business Review: Increasing male unemployment leads to more sex discrimination against women”

1. Pretty flimsy stuff. I suspect that a rise in sexual harassment cases simply reflects campaigns to increase “reporting” . A particular bit of daftness is the observation that the proportion of all cases initiated by males has remained constant over the period, as if that means the number has remained the same. But of course that actually means that the cases reported by men has risen too and remained at one sixth of the total.
   Its the old problem of correlations and causation. Particularly in areas where campaigns affect the incidence.

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2. A few things a university professor ought to understand before making ludicrous claims like that:
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging
   http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positives_and_false_negatives
   (false positives = false accusations.)

   “Some of the sex discrimination complaints are made by men — about 1 in 6 — but that proportion has been stable over time, and doesn’t do much to explain changes in the number of complaints.”

   No it does not, but it does disprove the hypothesis that sexual harassment is caused by men’s desire for “power and control”. If men’s harassment of women increased for that reason, then the ratio of complaints by men would have dropped. So Professor Cassino’s hypothesis is FALSE.

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