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And that's what you get when you place diversity above merit: incompetent people getting jobs they don't deserve - and are not prepared for - just because they are female.

For the record, India has approx. 2 rapes reported per 100000 people, while the US has 28.6 and Germany 9.

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You can't believe the reporting rate is the same.

No, but I believe that all the cases that reach the press have been reported and are part of the statistics. What I can't believe is that people who don't understand basic statistics are allowed to teach in universities and associate in the boycott of Indian students.

Its not the same, but how much more do you think it is? 5x? 10x? Even if it is 20x, its still comparable to Germany and the US (40 vs 30). Certainly not to an extent that you can indict 600 million people as rapists, as this professor did.

Under-reporting of rape and sex crimes is rife all over the world, including in so-called developed societies.

How did you determine that the male in question was competent (i.e. that he actually made the cut) and that the woman in question was not competent?

You should really read the article before commenting. This is not Slashdot.

I read it. This has nothing to do with Slashdot. You keep making statements as if you knew the situation better than the woman directly involved in the decision.

Read it again. Anyone who puts this in writing is too stupid to teach kindergarten, let alone university courses: "Many female professors in Germany decided to no longer accept male indian students for these reasons, and currently other European female association are joining".

You still haven't offered a shred of evidence that he actually made the cut for that lab. Why is he entitled to work there?

Let us say he did not made the cut based on his profile- How on earth does that justify her email ? Why won't she put the real reason for rejecting him, if there was any, instead of a oversimplified generalization based on the country of origin.

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