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>. For example, in our study, all of the women who took the public interview failed, while all of the women who took the private interview passed

Talk about buying the lede. If there's any justification for abolishing this practice, that's it right there.

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I agree that's a really striking and suggestive result, but keep in mind the sub-sample size there is four passing on the private side and six failing on the public side. My guess is there's a real and meaningful effect there, but it may not be to the degree that sentence without context would suggest.

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