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The number of independent people believing something combined with their authenticity, trustworthiness, or competency is basic information valuation[0]. Religious beliefs fall not on how many people believe them, but because they all originate from either untrustworthy or distant sources. Otherwise the laws of physics would be false, since many people also believe them.

In any case that doesn't matter since what you actually said that sexism wasn't one of the factors and I've shown that is was. We haven't even begun talking about how large a factor it was since you haven't been providing any real perspective on the matter. At this point I seriously doubt your ability to provide any value in this conversation and are therefor going to stop participating in it.

[0] https://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm2-22-3.pdf



You've shown that the organizers thought that sexism was a factor, which isn't the same thing. But you are right, since we fundamentally disagree about the rules of logic, further discussion is pointless. (example: I said truth doesn't follow from many people believing in something, you interpret it as 'everything many people believe is false'. Very basic logic mistake)




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