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Gender and race are orthogonal to shortsightedness and nerdiness. >diversity is a method of keeping this sort of thing in check. The term diversity by itself
by FT_intern 10y ago
Gender and race are orthogonal to shortsightedness and nerdiness.
>diversity is a method of keeping this sort of thing in check.
The term diversity by itself has no meaning. One needs to specify how groups of people are split up whenever using the word "diversity". Are we splitting the groups up by race, gender, economic class, technology experiences, etc.?
There are very valid arguments for diversity in working styles/technology expertise. The same can't be said for diversity in race/gender.
- sjc_native1980s 10y agoThere's a happy gray area between less c/overt bias/discrimination and promoting people whom aren't qualified/interested to ameliorate guilt of the former.
- awfgylbcxhrey 10y agoI'm not particularly interested in gender and race, I'm interested in culture. Gender and race happen to be pretty easy metrics to break up monoculture on a typical programming team. The term diversity by itself has no meaning. Yes it does. There are very valid arguments for diversity in working styles/technology expertise. The same can't be said for diversity in race/gender. Okay, thanks for the tautology.