Study uses Ebay to claim everyone devalues women
Recently, Science Advances published a study entitled How many cents on the dollar? Women and men in product markets. The paper uses a study of eBay sellers and transactions to claim that female sellers products are unjustly valued less than male seller's products. Conclusions are converted into cents on the dollar estimates reminiscent of false gender wage gap statistics:
"on average, when selling a product, women received 94.7 cents for every dollar received by men...when selling a new product, women received 80 cents for every dollar received by men." (4)
However, I am suspicious of both the studies methods and conclusions. The study's authors claim to have accurate gender data on seemingly anonymous eBay sellers. Furthermore, they claim that eBay buyers accurately guess the gender of these largely anonymous eBay sellers (even though their own data suggests otherwise) and base their decisions on it. The study is an obvious attempt to invent a "wage gap"-style societal grievance feminists can rally around.