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oh, so "being a nurse" should not correlate with "being a female", or "working in STEM" should not correlate with "being good at math and having with poor verba
by alacombe 9y ago
oh, so "being a nurse" should not correlate with "being a female", or "working in STEM" should not correlate with "being good at math and having with poor verbal/social skills".
Am I correct ?
- dang 9y agoThis breaks the HN guidelines, which say: "Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them." So would you please not take threads in that direction, whence they never return?
- alacombe 9y agoI do believe there is something directly related to this thread. My intention was to point out the fact that the concept of "equality of outcome" is an erroneous metric. I specifically amended the second part of my comment to omit orientation of gender and focus on the personality traits. That is, two grade A student may end up in totally different outcome, skewing statistics which would limit themselves to phenotypical attributes.
- dang 9y agoThe topic is education in Canada, not equality of outcome vs. equality of opportunity. Off-topic tangents can be fine when they're concrete, but generic tangents inevitably head off in a worse direction, and generic ideological tangents are the worst. More on this point at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14912821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14912821 if anyone's interested.