Institutional bias explained by a mathematician - Indira Chatterji
Channel: Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS)
Date: 2022-05-27

IHES celebrated the 2022 International Day of Women in Mathematics through an event that took place on Tuesday, May 17. Indira Chatterji, professor of mathematics at the University Côte d’Azur, gave a talk entitled Institutional bias, explained by a mathematician. #womeninmaths #womeninmathematics 
In statistics, a bias is the discrepancy between the theoretical value of a variable and the observed value. For example, it is widely accepted that men and women have the same intellectual capacity regarding mathematics, but we observe that there are very few female mathematicians. On neutral examples, we will study how biases can be created.