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>How can one lament the lack of women in a conference panel but make no mention of how lily white it is? Maybe it is related to how the mismatch from base rate
by Lawtonfogle 11y ago
>How can one lament the lack of women in a conference panel but make no mention of how lily white it is?
Maybe it is related to how the mismatch from base rate in prison populations in regards to race is a sign of systematic racism against the over-represented groups, but the same doesn't seem to be reported in regards to sex.
- minnows 11y agoSo, commute all prison sentences to STEM scholarships, and problem solved?
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoIf prison offered good job training (and we got people to be willing to employ felons), I think recidivism rates would take a significant dip. But oddly enough, such a solution would only further solidify the gender gap in tech as such scholarships would be going to far more men than women.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Maybe it is related to how the mismatch from base rate in prison populations in regards to race is a sign of systematic racism against the over-represented groups I've usually seen prison population cited not alone, but along with (and as an example of the outcome of) more direct examples of disparate treatment, such as unequal sentencing for like offenses, and the definition of different sentencing categories for different categories of narcotics, with the higher sentences being for possession or sale of categories disproportionately in use in the black community at the time the differential treatment was adopted.