This is how “scientific consensus” is achieved
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I think it's unintentionally confusing to mask the real problem: liberal women.
The presenter is a woman who went to a small liberal arts college and was director of USGS under Obama (a "first woman", yeah). All-girls primary schools. "Anyone who is doing anything in my life [before college] was female". Didn't take her husband's name. Thinks science has to change to accommodate women having children. No real talent for or self-direction in science, but gets elevated time after time just for being a woman.
On the other hand, she wants to be objective and pretend to be an actual scientist herself, so is personally conflicted and I think that plays out in this table - which is possibly the worst way to present this data.
If the data was presented clearly the audience would say "so... basically you're the problem?" and it would be personally embarrassing and hurtful.