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I don't seem to understand why you refuse to take Jay Parikh at his word. He is a indian minority who stands for diversity, and yes he often works very closely

I don't seem to understand why you refuse to take Jay Parikh at his word. He is a indian minority who stands for diversity, and yes he often works very closely with Sheryl for many years. Jay Parikh is not a suit or corporate hr person at all. http://www.today.com/popculture/sheryl-sandberg-speaks-new-generation-women-lean-graduates-2D79500260 http://www.today.com/popculture/sheryl-sandberg-speaks-new-g...

itsdrewmiller 9y ago
Has he made a public comment on this? The only reporting I have seen has been third hand. I am taking the reporting at its word, which is that he did an analysis using alternative dependent variables that showed no significant difference. I'm also asserting that his analysis is more likely to be flawed than the original study, since promotion level is not clearly an independent variable whereas Facebook tenure is. If the facebook engineering department is biased against women, they are likely to both promote deserving women less and reject their code more. If you do an analysis using promotion level to predict code rejection, you may not see any evidence of bias in this scenario, no matter how severe it actually is. Do you disagree with this possibility? Can you point me to anything that Facebook has said or done that explains why they are not concerned about it?
- LeeHwang 9y ago
  The research you are trying to dismiss several times in this thread as "suits" was done by Parikh. After reading your replies to myself and other users in this thread,You clearly have an issue with him, by the rather extreme lengths you've gone to discredit him in this thread. I don't want to be part of your crusade against an ally of diversity.
  - itsdrewmiller 9y ago
    I had never heard of him before this story. I think it is unfair of you to accuse me of some vendetta merely because I don't take the convenient, proprietary, flawed company study results over the better designed and more open engineering results.

itsdrewmiller 9y ago

Has he made a public comment on this? The only reporting I have seen has been third hand. I am taking the reporting at its word, which is that he did an analysis using alternative dependent variables that showed no significant difference. I'm also asserting that his analysis is more likely to be flawed than the original study, since promotion level is not clearly an independent variable whereas Facebook tenure is. If the facebook engineering department is biased against women, they are likely to both promote deserving women less and reject their code more. If you do an analysis using promotion level to predict code rejection, you may not see any evidence of bias in this scenario, no matter how severe it actually is. Do you disagree with this possibility? Can you point me to anything that Facebook has said or done that explains why they are not concerned about it?

LeeHwang 9y ago
The research you are trying to dismiss several times in this thread as "suits" was done by Parikh. After reading your replies to myself and other users in this thread,You clearly have an issue with him, by the rather extreme lengths you've gone to discredit him in this thread. I don't want to be part of your crusade against an ally of diversity.
- itsdrewmiller 9y ago
  I had never heard of him before this story. I think it is unfair of you to accuse me of some vendetta merely because I don't take the convenient, proprietary, flawed company study results over the better designed and more open engineering results.