“Orchestrating False Beliefs about Gender Discrimination”, 2019-02-19 (; backlinks; similar):
Blind auditions and gender discrimination: A seminal paper from 2000 investigated the impact of blind auditions in orchestras, and found that they increased the proportion of women in symphony orchestras.
I investigate the study, and find that there is no good evidence presented. The study is temporally confounded by a national trend of increasing female participation, does not actually establish any particular correlate of blind auditions, much less randomized experiments of blinding, the dataset is extremely underpowered, the effects cited in coverage cannot be found anywhere in the paper, and the critical comparisons which are there are not even statistically-significant in the first place.
None of these caveats are included in the numerous citations of the study as “proving” discrimination against women.