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They started off doing their bachelor’s project in political science together. Four years later, Katrine Greve-Poulsen and Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen are co-authors on a scientific article published in the prestigious journal The International Journal of Press\/Politics<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The conclusion is the same as in their bachelor\u2019s project:<\/p>\n

Consumers of media find male and female experts equally competent when they are quoted. At least in writing.<\/p>\n

For the bachelor\u2019s project, they found their respondents via Facebook. For the scientific article, they \u2013 with already established researchers Erik Alb\u00e6k and Rasmus Tue Pedersen \u2013 asked a representative sample of the Danish electorate via the pollster YouGov. 2,000 people in total.<\/p>\n

The respondents read two articles on active euthanasia and entrepreneurship, albeit with one variation: half of the articles cited a man as an expert, the other half cited a woman.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, a control group answered questions about the topics without reading the two articles.<\/p>\n

It turned out that the expert’s statements changed respondents’ attitude towards the topic in question, regardless of whether the expert was male or female. And when asked directly, readers assessed the male and female experts as equally competent.<\/p>\n

This is really positive.<\/p>\n

Katrine Greve-Poulsen, co-author and data analyst<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It should be pointed out that the articles were in fields where there are relatively most female experts (health) and in an area where there are fewest (economics).<\/p>\n

This surprises the researchers behind it. Partly because studies have previously revealed that female researchers are met with a larger degree of scepticism than their male colleagues when their research is being assessed.<\/p>\n

\u00bbPrecisely because bias has previously been found in, for example, peer review (assessments by other scientists within the same field, ed.), and because there is a general imbalance in the gender distribution among experts, our hypothesis was that there would also be a bias here. But we can reject this hypothesis,\u00ab says Katrine Greve-Poulsen, who no longer does research, but is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen as a data analyst.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIt’s really positive that men and women are not perceived differently in writing, even though there is a skewed gender distribution among the experts.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Careful not to generalise<\/h3>\n

Her old bachelor companion, Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen, has continued on a research path and is currently enrolled as a PhD student at the Department of Political Science.<\/p>\n

He points to one possible reason: When a source has been recognised as an expert in an article, this authority may weigh heavier than any gender bias.
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\nIt could also be significant that the survey was conducted among Danish voters and not, for example, in the US, where many gender bias hypotheses were studied.<\/p>\n

Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen emphasises, however, that the study has its limitations. It cannot say, for example, whether it is the same for radio or TV, where gender is marked by more than just names and pronouns:<\/p>\n

\u00bbWe cannot conclude that people in general are not gender-biased when they meet experts. A possible response could be that they are just not biased when they meet them in writing,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n

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\u00bbSo I would be cautious about generalising our results to other types of media than the written ones.\u00ab<\/p>\n

It is also possible, he adds, that the topic may be of significance:<\/p>\n

\u00bbWe do not know whether the result would be different if the topic had been more gender-related. For example, if it had been about the current debate on gender research,\u00ab says Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen.<\/p>\n

Need for more female experts<\/h3>\n

The researchers’ results are relevant for a debate on gender inequalities at universities as well as in the media.<\/p>\n

Most recently, the University of Southern Denmark came under fire for publishing a list of experts which had a pronounced predominance of men.<\/p>\n

Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen and Katrine Greve-Poulsen say that their results do not justify this imbalance.<\/p>\n

\u00bbWe can see that readers do not perceive male and female experts differently, but it is important to say that there is still a need for more female experts which people can see as role models,\u00ab says Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen.<\/p>\n

To this Katrine Greve-Poulsen adds:<\/p>\n

\u00bbWe cannot conclude that people in general are not gender-biased.<\/p>\n

Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen, PhD student, political science<\/p>\n

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\u00bbBut you can put it like this: Our study indicates that there is no reason to choose men over women, based on a perception that media consumers find them more credible. Because they are perceived in the same way.\u00ab<\/p>\n

According to Hanne J\u00f8rndrup, an associate professor of journalism at Roskilde University who has done several studies on the use of media with a focus on gender and ethnicity, the study can encourage the media to challenge conservative perceptions about what a good source is.<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe media have a narrow conception of normality, and they have unnecessary concerns about what readers can handle. Readers can easily accommodate the fact that a man in Denmark called Muhammad is tired of housing taxes, and they can also accommodate the fact that women can be experts,\u00ab she says.<\/p>\n

\u00bbThey’re often blinded by their own creations. Through their own use of sources, they have created some publicly known experts, some of which are actually the most important in their field, while others are not. They continue to use them because it makes their job easier, and they imagine that it will affect the quality if they do something else. This is completely crazy.\u00ab
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\nWhen critics point out that the media’s choice of sources is skewed, the automatic response is often that they are just reflecting the world as it is. But this is not the case, according to Hanne J\u00f8rndrup:<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe distribution of sources is more skewed than the distribution in reality, for example when it comes to experts\u2019 gender.\u00ab<\/p>\n

She agrees with the researchers’ idea that an expert’s authority somehow trumps a possible bias:<\/p>\n

\u00bbMaybe it’s not the gender that is important, but how you portray the expert. That you, for example, write: ‘Here is Birthe, and she has researched this for many years’.\u00ab<\/p>\n

It is doubtful whether the two former bachelor partners will dig further in to this problem. Katrine Greve-Poulsen now works for the University of Copenhagen administration, and Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen deals with completely different topics as a PhD student at the Department of Political Science.<\/p>\n

But they both appreciate their first encounter with research, they say.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIt was not exactly what we expected when we went to get feedback for the bachelor’s project four years ago. It has been a fun process,\u00ab says Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen.
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Now they co-authored their first scientific article Katrine Greve-Poulsen and Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen have just had their first research article published."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Standfirst","subject":"","text":"This is a story about what will follow","use_post_excerpt":true},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":true,"contributors":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>They started off doing their bachelor’s project in political science together. Four years later, Katrine Greve-Poulsen and Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen are co-authors on a scientific article published in the prestigious journal <em>The International Journal of Press\/Politics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The conclusion is the same as in their bachelor\u2019s project:<\/p>\n<p>Consumers of media find male and female experts equally competent when they are quoted. At least in writing.<\/p>\n<p>For the bachelor\u2019s project, they found their respondents via Facebook. For the scientific article, they \u2013 with already established researchers Erik Alb\u00e6k and Rasmus Tue Pedersen \u2013 asked a representative sample of the Danish electorate via the pollster YouGov. 2,000 people in total.<\/p>\n<p>The respondents read two articles on active euthanasia and entrepreneurship, albeit with one variation: half of the articles cited a man as an expert, the other half cited a woman.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, a control group answered questions about the topics without reading the two articles.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out that the expert’s statements changed respondents’ attitude towards the topic in question, regardless of whether the expert was male or female. And when asked directly, readers assessed the male and female experts as equally competent.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is really positive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Katrine Greve-Poulsen, co-author and data analyst<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It should be pointed out that the articles were in fields where there are relatively most female experts (health) and in an area where there are fewest (economics).<\/p>\n<p>This surprises the researchers behind it. Partly because studies have previously revealed that female researchers are met with a larger degree of scepticism than their male colleagues when their research is being assessed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbPrecisely because bias has previously been found in, for example, peer review (assessments by other scientists within the same field, ed.), and because there is a general imbalance in the gender distribution among experts, our hypothesis was that there would also be a bias here. But we can reject this hypothesis,\u00ab says Katrine Greve-Poulsen, who no longer does research, but is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen as a data analyst.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIt’s really positive that men and women are not perceived differently in writing, even though there is a skewed gender distribution among the experts.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h3>Careful not to generalise<\/h3>\n<p>Her old bachelor companion, Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen, has continued on a research path and is currently enrolled as a PhD student at the Department of Political Science.<\/p>\n<p>He points to one possible reason: When a source has been recognised as an expert in an article, this authority may weigh heavier than any gender bias.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":121666,"id":121666,"title":"frederik1","filename":"frederik1.jpg","filesize":304937,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frederik1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/?attachment_id=121666","alt":"frederik kj\u00f8ller larsen","author":"67","description":"","caption":"","name":"frederik1-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":121676,"date":"2021-06-21 10:44:19","modified":"2021-06-21 11:35:56","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1999,"height":1335,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frederik1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frederik1-480x321.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":321,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frederik1-768x513.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":513,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frederik1-1280x855.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":855,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frederik1-1536x1026.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1026,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frederik1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1999,"2048x2048-height":1335,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frederik1-290x194.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":194,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frederik1-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frederik1-700x467.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":467,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frederik1-990x661.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":661}},"style":"extended","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":false,"alternative_caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>It could also be significant that the survey was conducted among Danish voters and not, for example, in the US, where many gender bias hypotheses were studied.<\/p>\n<p>Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen emphasises, however, that the study has its limitations. It cannot say, for example, whether it is the same for radio or TV, where gender is marked by more than just names and pronouns:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe cannot conclude that people in general are not gender-biased when they meet experts. A possible response could be that they are just not biased when they meet them in writing,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/adm\/universitypost\"><strong>SIGN UP FOR THE UNIVERSITY POST NEWSLETTER HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbSo I would be cautious about generalising our results to other types of media than the written ones.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>It is also possible, he adds, that the topic may be of significance:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe do not know whether the result would be different if the topic had been more gender-related. For example, if it had been about the current debate on gender research,\u00ab says Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen.<\/p>\n<h3>Need for more female experts<\/h3>\n<p>The researchers’ results are relevant for a debate on gender inequalities at universities as well as in the media.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, the University of Southern Denmark came under fire for publishing a list of experts which had a pronounced predominance of men.<\/p>\n<p>Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen and Katrine Greve-Poulsen say that their results do not justify this imbalance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe can see that readers do not perceive male and female experts differently, but it is important to say that there is still a need for more female experts which people can see as role models,\u00ab says Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen.<\/p>\n<p>To this Katrine Greve-Poulsen adds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00bbWe cannot conclude that people in general are not gender-biased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen, PhD student, political science<\/p>\n<p> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00bbBut you can put it like this: Our study indicates that there is no reason to choose men over women, based on a perception that media consumers find them more credible. Because they are perceived in the same way.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>According to Hanne J\u00f8rndrup, an associate professor of journalism at Roskilde University who has done several studies on the use of media with a focus on gender and ethnicity, the study can encourage the media to challenge conservative perceptions about what a good source is.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe media have a narrow conception of normality, and they have unnecessary concerns about what readers can handle. Readers can easily accommodate the fact that a man in Denmark called Muhammad is tired of housing taxes, and they can also accommodate the fact that women can be experts,\u00ab she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThey’re often blinded by their own creations. Through their own use of sources, they have created some publicly known experts, some of which are actually the most important in their field, while others are not. They continue to use them because it makes their job easier, and they imagine that it will affect the quality if they do something else. This is completely crazy.\u00ab<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":121668,"id":121668,"title":"katrine1","filename":"katrine1.jpg","filesize":362522,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katrine1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/?attachment_id=121668","alt":"Katrine Greve Poulsen","author":"67","description":"","caption":"","name":"katrine1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":121676,"date":"2021-06-21 10:44:20","modified":"2021-06-21 11:35:56","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1999,"height":1335,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katrine1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katrine1-480x321.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":321,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katrine1-768x513.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":513,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katrine1-1280x855.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":855,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katrine1-1536x1026.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1026,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katrine1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1999,"2048x2048-height":1335,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katrine1-290x194.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":194,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katrine1-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katrine1-700x467.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":467,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katrine1-990x661.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":661}},"style":"extended","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":false,"alternative_caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>When critics point out that the media’s choice of sources is skewed, the automatic response is often that they are just reflecting the world as it is. But this is not the case, according to Hanne J\u00f8rndrup:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe distribution of sources is more skewed than the distribution in reality, for example when it comes to experts\u2019 gender.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>She agrees with the researchers’ idea that an expert’s authority somehow trumps a possible bias:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbMaybe it’s not the gender that is important, but how you portray the expert. That you, for example, write: ‘Here is Birthe, and she has researched this for many years’.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>It is doubtful whether the two former bachelor partners will dig further in to this problem. Katrine Greve-Poulsen now works for the University of Copenhagen administration, and Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen deals with completely different topics as a PhD student at the Department of Political Science.<\/p>\n<p>But they both appreciate their first encounter with research, they say.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIt was not exactly what we expected when we went to get feedback for the bachelor’s project four years ago. It has been a fun process,\u00ab says Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"en","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Get a weekly email with our top stories","button_text":"Sign up here","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":46,"name":"Science","slug":"science","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":46,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":831,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":3087,"name":"bias","slug":"bias-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3087,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":4790,"name":"Frederik Kj\u00f8ller Larsen","slug":"frederik-kjoeller-larsen-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4790,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":4791,"name":"Hanne J\u00f8rndrup","slug":"hanne-joerndrup-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4791,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":4792,"name":"Katrine Greve-Poulsen","slug":"katrine-greve-poulsen-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4792,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11487,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katrinefrederikface-1280x706.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121855"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121861,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121855\/revisions\/121861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}