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I understood it exactly as khafra did. I suppose we are confused about this line (which khafra was referring to):

TechMeme’s technology is a natural for filter blogs, so it’s unsurprising that this leads to underrepresentation of women and youth.

This quote makes it sound like women and children write more personal and knowledge stuff, which TechMeme naturally overlooks. Further, it straight up says that this tendency is "unsurprising".

So we are wondering what this has to do with gender bias or why it's surprising that a technology would miss things that it is designed to miss.

But you said he was not reading the summary correctly, so obviously something is not clear here.



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