In the notes to his _Real Education_, Charles Murray proposes a convention for third-person singular pronouns where the sex of the referent is unknown or irrelevant—
> As always, I adhere to the Murray Rule for dealing with third-person singular pronouns, which prescribes using the gender of the author or principal author as the default, and I hope in vain that others will adopt it.
In the notes to his _Real Education_, Charles Murray proposes a convention for third-person singular pronouns where the sex of the referent is unknown or irrelevant—
> As always, I adhere to the Murray Rule for dealing with third-person singular pronouns, which prescribes using the gender of the author or principal author as the default, and I hope in vain that others will adopt it.