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Both.

Paper: "We put three women and three men in a room for 10 minutes and they brainstormed 1.3 extra ideas than a room of 6 men."

Article: "Study proves gender balance leads to better meetings!"




Amusing, but I don't quite agree with this characterization of "all of social science."

But here's something interesting: I've tracked down a source for the 10% claim, and it's absolutely bonkers:

* An editorial[1] in the Detroit Free Press makes the following claim:

| "an analysis of statistics provided by the American Medical Association indicates that 10% of all American physicians are Muslims"

That certainly makes it sound like the AMA thinks that 10% of American physicians are Muslims.

* The source provided for this claim, "Muslim Doctors Abundant, But Muslim Hospitals Non-Existent"[2] is a 2008 post on a site called The Muslim Link.

Here's how that post arrived at the 10% claim:

* 113,585 Physicians in the US (2006)

* 7,000 current and retired physicians are members of the Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America

* 5.9% of African Americans are Muslim; 3.5% of physicians are African American; therefore there are 2000 African American Muslim physicians

* 7000 + 2000 = 9000; 9000 is just about 10% of 113,585

I shit you not, that's the most straightforward reading of the analysis at [2]. Now it's in the Economist. I seriously hope they got that number somewhere else.

[1] http://www.freep.com/article/20140128/OPINION05/301280121/da...

[2] http://www.muslimlinkpaper.com/myjumla/index.php?option=com_...




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