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Rather than just "believing," can you please provide evidence that "white, male and safe" people do not detect and put their energy into treating the kinds of p

Rather than just "believing," can you please provide evidence that "white, male and safe" people do not detect and put their energy into treating the kinds of problems you're alluding to? (In fact I must have missed the specific untreated problems that you and the author mention). I fail to see how skin color, gender and "safeness," whatever the hell that is, implies someone has a "reduced" ability to detect and solve important problems. If you actually look for it, you will find many examples of people with the superficial characteristics you describe, and find that not only are they an extremely "diverse" group of people -- in the characteristics that truly matter -- but that they are doing precisely the kind of work that I think you speak of. Why stop at people in "our field"? What about all of the people who possess the superficial characteristics you mention, but who also share an extraordinary amount of "diversity" and have had extraordinary success in treating important problems -- outside of "our field"? Doctors, scientists, engineers ... all over the world ... truly seek to make the world a better place. Frankly I'm sick of the notion that "white, male and safe" implies a lack of diversity and a lack of ability or desire to detect ... whatever problems you have.

ixtli 10y ago
Ah, I should have specified software engineering. However as an example, there have been a good amount of studies that show that problem solving (detection and solution generation) are enabled by diversity† Combined with this, many studies of the demographics in software engineering show that it lacks gender and racial diversity†† I certainly should have been more clear about what I was implying. I used white and male because those are the two majorities in America which was also something I should have specified at the outset. Evidence of a personal bias that comes from being American, I suppose. † https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-diversity-can-drive-innovation https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-diversity-can-drive-innovation †† http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm (search 'Software developers, applications and systems software')

ixtli 10y ago

Ah, I should have specified software engineering. However as an example, there have been a good amount of studies that show that problem solving (detection and solution generation) are enabled by diversity† Combined with this, many studies of the demographics in software engineering show that it lacks gender and racial diversity†† I certainly should have been more clear about what I was implying. I used white and male because those are the two majorities in America which was also something I should have specified at the outset. Evidence of a personal bias that comes from being American, I suppose. † https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-diversity-can-drive-innovation https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-diversity-can-drive-innovation †† http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm (search 'Software developers, applications and systems software')