Is it meaningful to add facts to a conversation? The case of Roxbourg's claim about gender inequality

Recently an ad showed up on Facebook. Roxbourg Institute för Social Entrepreneurship offered education in social entrepreneurship to seek the root cause of gender, social and environmental inequity.  Is it possible that there's inequality between men and women in 178 of Earth's 195 countries?  Our species has a unique ability to simulate mental scenarios and then run them forward in time. But our species also has the peculiarity of failing to handle probabilities because we proceed from our intuitive impulses. The reason for that is that the mind cherry picks information from memory to fit the current situation - our perception. Since the renaissance, Our blue planet has gone through a remarkable progressive transformation. More than 50 % av of Earth's countries have democracy, and in democracies, women favor biological predisposition. Roxbourg Institute's claim is therefore unlikely to be true. On July 3, I had a zoom conversation with someone from Roxbourg. 10 pages.

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Recently an ad showed up on Facebook. Roxbourg Institute för Social Entrepreneurship offered education in social entrepreneurship.

Roxbourg Institutes add on Facebook

The premise, that is, the framing (Tversky and Kahneman, 1981) of the offer is the claim about inequality for women in 178 out of Earths 195 countries.

Is it possible that there's inequality between men and women in 178 of Earth's 195 countries?

Our species has a unique ability to simulate mental scenarios and then run them forward in time (Gilbert and Wilson, 2007; Kaku, 2014). But our species also has the peculiarity of failing to handle probabilities because we proceed from our intuitive impulses (Kahneman and Tversky, 1979, 1982; Tversky and Kahneman, 1983). The reason for that is that the mind cherry picks information from memory to fit the current situation - our perception (Schacter and Addis, 2007).

In order to overcome these fallacies in favor of rational thinking, we can apply a mix of Epistemic vigilance - being suspensions about the message and the purpose of the message (Sperber et al. 2010),  Disjunctive reasoning - consider all options (Stanovich, 2009) and numeracy - the ability to understand, reason with, and to apply simple numerical concepts (Brooks and Pui, 2010).

Since the renaissance, our blue planet has gone through a remarkable progressive transformation (Goldstein and Pinker, 2016; Pinker, 2011).

In 2017, half of Earth's Countries were democracies (Pew Institute).

The prevalence of democracy is marked with blue in the map below.

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This is also demonstrated by Our World in Data:

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This is my own top ten list: from my talk - What’s the Prospect of sustainable Food? The Case for mental health - on January 23, 2020:

• Global Poverty is on a record low – every 24 hours for the past 25 years, 120 000 fellow sapiens get out of extreme poverty.
  
  
• More children than ever celebrate their 5th birthday
  
  
• Democracy is more prevalent than ever.
  
  
• The Earth is greener than 20 years ago (Nace, 2019).
  
  
• Deforestation in Amazonas is on record low since 2003 (the original trend starts 1988).
  
  
• Bushfires in Australia are decreasing (trend).
  
  
• Polar bears are prevalent on a record scale.
  
  
• Emissions from Chinese power plants have decreased by 60-70 % since 2014.
  
  
• GHG-emissions from the Nordic countries 0.5% of global ditto.
  
  
• The great barrier Reed is doing just fine.

Common knowledge about the reason for this progress is the suppression of honor culture in favor of science, humans, and reason (Pinker, 2018).

Ergo. Roxbourg Institute's claim is unlikely to be true.

So obviously I asked Roxbourg about their claim:

I also added a reference - Stoet and Geary (2018):

Paradoxically, the sex differences in the magnitude of relative academic strengths and pursuit of STEM degrees rose with increases in national gender equality. 

They replied claiming the following:

I replied:

They replied:

Dr. Srivastava replied:

I replied:

Dr. Srivastava replied:

I preplied:

Dr. Srivastava replied:

Why are Roxbourg Institute för Social Entrepreneurship so keen on promoting the idea that inequality for women is prevalent on a global scale?

The answer may lie in plan sight. The image used by Roxbourg Institute, the women standing together with their left hand raised in demonstration, evokes associations of Marxism. Compare with this image:

Source: #teammarxist hater of all things capitalist.

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Often, feminists, an ideology which originates from marxist theory, tend to argue that women suffer because of capitalism; they claim there's a wage gap between men and women, and that there's inequality marked by the absence of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).

These claims have been disproved (Österberg, 2019). Watch this video for a demonstration.

It's also common knowledge that girls has a preference for humans, and that boys has a preference for things (Baron Cohen, 2003; Pinker, 2005; Stoet and Geary, 2018).

People who refuse progress are progressofobics (Pinker, 2018).

On July 3, 02.00 - 02.25 pm, I accepted to have a zoom-conversation with the person who responded to my comments on Facebook. The conversation was recorded. the person claimed he was Rajiv Srivastava. He started by raising his voice and express himself very emotionally, and then starting to attack me verbally. For a moment I got the chance to talk. He then twisted my argument and continued his polemics against me. He then attributed his aggression on me, and ending the conversation by refusing to share the recording with me.

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