论文标题
学术界的妇女：从天文学的角度来看性别研究中选择偏见的警告
Women in academia: a warning on selection bias in gender studies from the astronomical perspective
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论文摘要
Alshebli等人最近的论文。 （2020）调查了指导对年轻科学家的影响。在他们的结论中，他们指出，女性门生从男性中受益而不是女性指导。我们在这里揭示了其方法论设计中的关键缺陷，这是天文学中的一个常见问题，即“选择偏见”。如果未经适当的治疗，可能会导致不必要的因果关系主张。在他们的分析中，选择偏见似乎存在于他们的调查率（8.35％），数据库的选择，成功标准以及女性研究人员在学术界所面临的众多缺点的忽视中。我们讨论了这些问题及其含义 - 其中之一是学术界女性障碍的潜在增加。最后，我们加强了不考虑旨在检索因果关系的研究中选择偏差效应的危险。
The recent paper by AlShebli et al. (2020) investigates the impact of mentorship in young scientists. Among their conclusions, they state that female protégés benefit more from male than female mentorship. We herein expose a critical flaw in their methodological design that is a common issue in Astronomy, namely "selection biases". An effect that if not treated properly may lead to unwarranted causality claims. In their analysis, selection biases seem to be present in the response rate of their survey (8.35%), the choice of database, success criterion, and the overlook of the numerous drawbacks female researchers face in academia. We discuss these issues and their implications -- one of them being the potential increase in obstacles for women in academia. Finally, we reinforce the dangers of not considering selection bias effects in studies aimed at retrieving causal relations.
