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Financial Times bot warns if articles quote too many men
- greatersuccess 8y agoOne of the greatest achievements of modern anti-discrimination politics is that now anyone can be discriminated against without exception.
- monksy 8y agoAre they assuming gender in the name of the person?
- chimprich 8y agoFrom the article: "a bot that uses pronouns and analysis of first names to determine whether a source is male or a female". Probably not perfect, but good enough for a suggestion/reminder engine.
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- adobeeee 8y agoI think that would be discriminatory and if anything shaming people who don't want to come out
- zelon88 8y agoDefine "too many." Is a work not valid if there isn't enough diversity in it's sources?
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- shatteredvisage 8y agoEye roll
- bostonpartee 8y agoI guess that's one way of approaching this problem of parochial viewpoints. Hope this doesn't have any unintended consequences.
- tfehring 8y ago>The media organisation found that only 21% of people quoted in the FT were women, prompting the development of a bot that uses pronouns and analysis of first names to determine whether a source is male or a female. Sounds like substantial underrepresentation for an industry in which management and professional workers are 47% women [0]... >The paper, which covers many male-dominated industries, is keen to attract more women readers, with its research suggesting they are put off by articles that rely heavily on quotes from men. ...and a strong business case for the FT to address it. Aside from the fact that this is HN, I'm not sure why all of the top-level comments so far are so critical. [0] https://hbr.org/2016/10/why-women-arent-making-it-to-the-top-of-financial-services-firms https://hbr.org/2016/10/why-women-arent-making-it-to-the-top...
- OpenBSD-reich 8y agoThis is so sexist against men! I can't wait for the return to merit, rather than class membership, to be the dominant point for evaluating people.