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Fix typo, closes #351
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mine-cetinkaya-rundel committed Oct 27, 2023
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The large difference in promotion rates (`r perc_female` for female personnel versus `r perc_male` for male personnel) suggest there might be discrimination against women in promotion decisions.
The large difference in promotion rates (`r perc_female` for female personnel versus `r perc_male` for male personnel) suggests there might be discrimination against women in promotion decisions.
However, we cannot yet be sure if the observed difference represents discrimination or is just due to random chance when there is no discrimination occurring.
Since we wouldn't expect the sample proportions to be *exactly* equal, even if the truth was that the promotion decisions were independent of sex, we can't rule out random chance as a possible explanation when simply comparing the sample proportions.
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