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Having developed a little tool I use with clients with a 5 point scale, I’m going to bump it to 6 after reading this article. Fascinating that research shows that a 10 point scale can also be a factor in gender bias. I’m curious what you think: Brigitta Wurnig Kate McCourt Francesco Pimpinelli Kerstin Knoefel Betina Rama
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NO! 6 isn't a magical number. The general thrust of the article is that FEWER data points results in less bias because we associate genius and exceptionality with males [and 6/6 is not seen as exceptional or genius]. You should actually prefer odd numbers of points because they make it easy to give somebody a neutral score on a symmetric scale. The study authors used 6 points because one of their two experiments was based on pre-existing data, and that is how many points the existing data had.