{"id":570,"date":"2004-05-01T18:59:50","date_gmt":"2004-05-01T23:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2004-05-01T18:59:50","modified_gmt":"2004-05-01T23:59:50","slug":"women-competition-followup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"women, competition, followup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few good follow-up conversations about the &#8220;women and competition&#8221; story, two posts down.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunir.org\">Sunir<\/a> wondered about whether the study reveals cultural bias in favor of single-winner competition.<br \/>\nJust one recent example: Joi Ito&#8217;s post about <a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/archives\/2004\/04\/30\/reaction_of_japan_to_the_japanese_hostages_in_iraq.html\">Japanese reaction to the hostages in Iraq<\/a> and ideas about individualism vs group identity in Japanese culture.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterkaminski.com\">Peter<\/a> comments that the preference for competition vs. co-operation doesn&#8217;t line up neatly on a gender axis.<br \/>\n(Which is my beef with difference feminism; gender is an illustrative lens to examine human differences, but one of many; gender differences are real, but reflect averages across the population, and don&#8217;t determine individual behavior).<br \/>\nThe more that I think about it, the real, detectable underlying bias here is that of the University of Chicago, the affiliation of the study&#8217;s lead author. The Chicago school of economics applies the mathematical and experimental techniques of economics to &#8220;prove&#8221; how the rational, individualistic incentives of &#8220;homo economicus&#8221; apply to everyday social life.  Debatable philosophical assumptions about human nature are baked into the premises of the studies, and the outcomes confirm the premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few good follow-up conversations about the &#8220;women and competition&#8221; story, two posts down. Sunir wondered about whether the study reveals cultural bias in favor of single-winner competition. Just one recent example: Joi Ito&#8217;s post about Japanese reaction to the hostages in Iraq and ideas about individualism vs group identity in Japanese culture. Peter comments &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=570\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;women, competition, followup&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-9c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}