“…On the other hand, U.S. and U.K. citizens frequently get exposed to the discourse, nowadays, that women do not get equal professional opportunities as men, a narrative which is both still largely true (James et al, 2019;Shen, 2013;Begeny et al, 2020;Moss-Racusin et al, 2012;Régner et al, 2019;Reuben et al, 2014) and which people are reputationally incentivized to endorse (Kuran, 1997;Kurzban & Aktipis, 2007). Moreover, the mind is evolutionarily ill-prepared to engage in explicit reasoning about base rates, counterfactuals, and statistics (Kahneman et al, 1982;Marie et al, 2020;Marie et al, 2021). Given this, one should perhaps not be too harsh on people's brains for using deeply entrenched and socially encouraged beliefs when quickly assessing a report that has all the appearances of scientific probity.…”