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Of course we can help. Let's start making sites promoting a 50/50 sex distribution in all the mines! Let's convince Google and Facebook to finance "mining girls
by stefantalpalaru 11y ago
Of course we can help. Let's start making sites promoting a 50/50 sex distribution in all the mines! Let's convince Google and Facebook to finance "mining girls" programs, both inside and outside schools. Let's start shaming male miners for being males and discriminate against them when hiring!
What can possibly go wrong?
- cygx 11y agoIt's not about reaching gender parity, or shaming. It's about merit and bias. Jobs that are, on average, more suitable for a person of a certain sex do exist. But it's a loss to society to culturally enforce gender-based barriers to entry: You want to leverage the high-performance end of the bell curve of either sex.
- stefantalpalaru 11y agoSo when people discuss statistics about women/ethnic minorities/eye color in tech, you really think it's about breaking barriers to entry and not about mirroring the composition of the general population in a ridiculous failure to understand the sampling bias?
- austinjp 11y agoActually, yes.
- stefantalpalaru 11y agoThen you need to question the underlying assumptions, because your conclusion is wrong. Start with this: given equal opportunity, any self selected group will mirror the composition of the general population.
- austinjp 11y agoYou seem to be making strident arguments against ridiculous points that nobody is making.
- stefantalpalaru 11y agoMaybe you don't see past the reductio ad absurdum.