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by slipjack 8y ago
One major issue in this scenario: you don’t know who wants/can/will have kids. Discriminating against women because they have a uterus and might get pregnant and might have a problematic pregnancy and might carry to term a
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by slipjack 8y ago
If 43% of women leave the workforce after having a child, it’s still more likely than not that your employee is coming back. And my guess is that the number of women who plan to come back and then don’t is much smaller than 43%, because - t
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by slipjack 11y ago
What's interesting is that the author talks only about impact on children. I was under the impression that a large part of the argument for universal preK (and universal day-care, like Head Start) was that it evens out how easy it is f
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by slipjack 11y ago
Do you have any links about the project? I'd be really interested to know more.
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by slipjack 11y ago
> Many universities in the AAU survey offered 6,000 students > $5 each to fill out the survey, yielding a total potential > cost of $30,000. But if you were willing to pay $30,000, it > would be far better to pay 600 randomly
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by slipjack 11y ago
Interesting - I'll check these out. But again, I'm not arguing that genetics don't have any impact on behavior - I'm arguing that getting from someone else's experience of appearance to genetics to the 20% of beha
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by slipjack 11y ago
Do you have any studies about humans? Because I'm not aware of many that are clear-cut (of course, there's environment-gene interplay, but that is way more murky than anything talked about in the article or in the OP's commen
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by slipjack 11y ago
Er... my point was that most superficial qualities don't have a 1-to-1 mapping on internal qualities. Height is another great example.
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by slipjack 11y ago
> Being swayed by superficial cues is not irrational if they correlate to the underlying qualities you are trying to judge. I'd be pretty careful about this line of argument. What we think of as a clue to underlying qualities is cul
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by slipjack 11y ago
> And when you refuse again, their job is to arrest you. Not really. Their job is to assess the situation and see if it make sense to arrest the person. In most cases, the answer is that it doesn't.
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by slipjack 11y ago
Thanks! Honestly, I would start with the wikipedia article about it ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality ). It's a nice intro and has a lot of great links.
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by slipjack 11y ago
My bad - I was being sarcastic about the first comment, not sarcastic about the second (and agreeing with you). To more fully explain what I meant by my first response, I was frustrated by his lack of awareness of the ways intersectionality
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by slipjack 11y ago
Yup. It's annoying to hear that I should stop whining because the internet is fine, when he almost doesn't experience oppression in the same way.
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by slipjack 11y ago
> Whatever do you, do not make a scene, as that will burden the entire community with your issue... Remember, this is not the time or place to start these kind of discussions. Cool. I'll make sure not to make a big issue out of bein
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by slipjack 11y ago
Yeah, it's almost like intersectionality is a thing.
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by slipjack 11y ago
Would you expect that amount of fudging to change over time? Arguing that fudging stats explains the drop in crime requires that you believe in the last 30 years police throughout the country have started undercounting the amount of crime i
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by slipjack 11y ago
So, not necessarily this article, but I haven't seen much in sociological or economics literature that's put forth one single reason crime dropped. There's argument over primary causes, or how much each cause contributes to
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by slipjack 11y ago
It doesn't really have anything to do with policy or working odd hours. Unless everyone presses enter at the same time, grades will be input at different times. (I'd love to see administrators trying to corral senior faculty into
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by slipjack 11y ago
Different teachers putting their grades in at different times of the day? Sure.
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Room for Debate: Nobel Winning Sexism in the Lab(nytimes.com)
1 points by slipjack 11y ago|0 comments
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by slipjack 11y ago
In Yiddish (at least as spoken to me), it often has a masculine connotation.
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by slipjack 11y ago
One of the points in the article is that the first often leads to the second: if your idea of a programmer is white and male, and that predisposes you to trust the capabilities of male tech candidates, you're going to end up with under
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by slipjack 11y ago
Extra points for Orientalist views of Japanese femininity.
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by slipjack 11y ago
As mentioned in one of the other comments, you're getting NaN% for some success rates. I'm guessing it's because you're using the number of certified as the denominator, which will return NaN if it's 0. Also, maybe
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by slipjack 12y ago
Yes, but suing costs a lot of money, so people don't tend to do it because they've "interpreted wrongly" a few isolated comments. She's suing 51 people - that's a lot of co-workers who just wondered why she opt
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by slipjack 12y ago
Building subsidized housing is only one way to subsidize housing expenses. There are vouchers, sliding scale housing, mixed income housing, set-asides, and more.
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by slipjack 12y ago
A) We don't know she's single, only that she's living alone. Those are two different things. B) She says in the video that she makes good money. C) Our communities do better with more income/etc diversity ( http:/&#
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by slipjack 12y ago
Not to mention that a family's informal support network often works as a subsidy/social safety net, and when you move that definitely will not follow you. Probably the most common example is that many families in the US use fami
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by slipjack 12y ago
Even if there's no big market for fast food veggie burgers, Burger King sells a pretty decent one. Not always on the menu, but I've found them even in rural Alabama.
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by slipjack 12y ago
Sociological studies have found this to happen pretty often. A (very readable) study of tipping points can be found in There Goes the Neighborhood ( http://www.amazon.com/There-Goes-Neighborhood-Tensions-Neigh... ).

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