Aapjes

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by Aapjes 9y ago
> many men have a sexist bias towards men. Proof? Gender neutralized experiments find a great variety of results, with sometimes a bias in favor of women and sometimes a bias in favor of men. There is no consistency here that can be seen
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by Aapjes 9y ago
Women get 18% of computer science degrees, so it seems doubtful that Google would get a 40/60 split in applicants. But the specific numbers are not the point of my comment. The issue is that if there is a lot of pressure to get a 50&#x
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by Aapjes 9y ago
The hiring ratios for Google track the ratios of the applicants, so that could only be true if the female applicants are better than the male applicants. This may be true, but I've seen no evidence of this. That the vast majority of in
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by Aapjes 9y ago
During his interview with Jordan Peterson, Damore explained that he was looking for criticism/push back against his claims, which was why he posted it to a Skeptics forum within Google. He didn't actually present it directly to ma
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by Aapjes 9y ago
Imagine a theoretical scenario where they have 500 female applicants and 9,500 male applicants, but desperately want a 50/50 workforce. Then they logically would hire all female applicants, including those who are not part of the 2000
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by Aapjes 9y ago
geofft, By your reasoning brighteyes has just proven that you have reached conclusions not justified by the paper, so will you resign from your job, given that you think such incompetence on the part of Dalmore is inexcusable and makes him
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by Aapjes 9y ago
People's qualifications are not all the same. Imagine that Google wants to hire 1,000 people, but 10,000 people apply for a job. Then Google logically ought to take the best 1,000 people that apply. With diversity quota's, the com