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Colbert came up with the idea of moral development as a stage theory, but he also made the controversial statement that women have inferior moral reasoning.
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And he concluded this because when he looked at his data, he noticed that men compared to women gave responses that colberg predicted would end.
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That the men have moved past stage four into the third level, which is called post -conventional morality.
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And so if you compared the responses of the women and men, women seem to be deficient in their moral reasoning.
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Now, colberg had an assistant named gilligan, and she criticized colberg.
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And so what she said was that colberg's research was based on a very skewed population sample.
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Specifically, colberg did his research on primarily upper class white men and boys...