Corrigendum: “Gender Systematics in the NRAO Proposal Review System”(2021, PASP, 133, 115002)

Abstract

Abstract In Hunt et al., we used the Anderson–Darling (AD) two-sample test to evaluate the probability that the observed linear rank distributions for female and male principal investigators are from the same parent sample. We determined the nominal AD p-value, ρ AD(x, y), where x and y are the female and male linear ranks, and estimated the uncertainty by calculating the mean and 68% confidence intervals from the AD p-value bootstrapped distributions, ρ AD boot . Since the p-value is a measure of probability, and the distribution of p-values is uniform, this method is not appropriate. Here we calculate ρ AD boot as the proportion of bootstrapped AD test statistics that are greater than or equal to the nominal AD test statistic. We find that the nominal and bootstrapped AD p-values are similar and therefore we do not recommend any changes to the conclusions in Hunt et al.