Skewed Groups, Implicit Sex Bias, and Trainee Evaluations

The recent publication by Fassiotto et al., reinforces yet another challenge for female academic surgeons and those in other “low representation” specialties: that of bias in evaluations by trainees.1,2 In this new study, the “threshold” value for female representation in specialties was based upon American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) demographic data and the mean percentage of female faculty across all specialties included in the AAMC sample. The cut point of 32.6% has an interesting congruency with male-dominant groups moving from skewed to tilted when approximately 35% of members of a group are women.
Source: Journal of Surgical Education - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: COMMENTARY Source Type: research