Breitbart:
Researchers have accused the world’s leading Natural History Museums – in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Paris and London – of sexist bias.
They discovered this after counting the number of male specimens in the collection and discovering that they outnumber female ones.
Male birds outnumber female birds by 60 per cent to 40 per cent and mammals are 52 per cent male and 48 per cent female.
Although the researchers acknowledge the fairly obvious reason for this – collectors are attracted to “species with showy male traits like colourful plumage and horns” and thus tend to overlook the generally smaller, drabber female ones – they insist that this is an imbalance that needs correcting.
They claim:
If collections are biased towards one sex, studies may not be representative of the species.
According to the study’s lead dead-animal-counter, quoted in the Manchester Evening News, this ‘bias’ needs ‘improvement.’ more
Researchers have found that researchers who find sexism and racism where none were previously detected show a definite imbalance of sociopolitical ideologies. Unless there is affirmative action to raise the number of conservative and white male researchers, studies that purport to find sexism and racism in unexpected places should be ridiculed or ignored.
Yes, but the important question is whut sex did they identify as when they were alive…
Said no one ever!
The most ironic thing ever said in a Natural History Museum:
“Get a life!”
Birds are easy…the males have better plumage to attract the babes…..the mammals are more difficult to figure out.
Maybe because the males are bigger, faster,stronger they look better?…who knows?….all I know is that the males of any species will die trying to get a decent breast and a nice tail….
“Researchers”? Is that what we’re calling them this current day?
There is concern of the breeding population that most hunters and researchers use to consider. If you have five females and one male, the population should grow. If you have five males and one female, there is a real risk of extinction. Therefore you avoiding killing females.