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This is a very confused comment. Yes, people should be evaluated as individuals, especially where doing so is very easy (such as figuring out how accurate you a
by patrec 7y ago
This is a very confused comment. Yes, people should be evaluated as individuals, especially where doing so is very easy (such as figuring out how accurate you are at throwing darts). No, surprise at an elite member from population x outperforming an elite member from population y if both have similar standard deviations but widely different means (with x worse) is not indicative of badly understood statistics. You might want to try plotting some Gaussians and ponder the exponential in them, and how it affects the size of the pool past some threshold.
- simion314 7y agoWhat I mean is if you have a man and a woman candidate for a designer position and say you think they are equal you are an idiot if you don't hire the man because statistically men have in average larger chance to be color blind , you should test the individual in front of you for his/her skills and not try to use statistics that refer to a group to an individual. About your plot related comment you probably won't get in from you the elite of the elite of programmers/designers/whatever. But if you still want to make a point try to formulate a mathematical statement so we don;t debate language or assumptions.
- patrec 7y ago> About your plot related comment you probably won't get in from you the elite of the elite of programmers/designers/whatever. I can't parse this sentence.
- simion314 7y agoSorry , I mean in a job interview you will probably won't get the top 0.01% individuals.
- patrec 7y agoSure, but mind explaining how the fact that a woman beat a man in the World Darts championship (which probably has the world's top 0.01% of darts players) will make people less likely to mistakenly not hire a male designer over a female one because it helps to correct some supposed statistical confusion in their head?
- simion314 7y agoMy initial comment was referring about "mythbusting" spacial and orientation biases in most cultures. The design examples was unrelated. Similarlly if you are from US and you were indoctrinated that women are bad at math then you go to a different country Math university and discover a lot of women there some better then you, this would slap your biases out of you.
- patrec 7y agoCan you spell out what myth is being busted, and how, in a way a numerate person would be inclined to agree with?