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People like you are why it’s still hard to get ahead as a women. Imagine in every meeting, people assume you’re less qualified for the job before you even start
by dublidu 6y ago
People like you are why it’s still hard to get ahead as a women. Imagine in every meeting, people assume you’re less qualified for the job before you even start talking.
- ARandomerDude 6y agoI literally just said the opposite of that.
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- tastyfreeze 6y agoNo, you said she only got anywhere because she was a woman from South America not because of hard work and skill.
- selfishgene 6y agoUnfortunately with actual real-world policies like affirmative action that implement reverse racism and sexism in corporations and universities throughout the United States, often the people at these meetings *are less qualified* than ones who did not get hired under same policies. Human brains are Bayesian filters. Affirmative action policies will understandably influence the prior even among individuals who believe in diversity and inclusion. When she "starts talking," a fair-minded individual will develop a posterior that appropriately updates any suspicions that were previously held.
- jfengel 6y agoA truly Bayesian machine never eliminates the old priors. It updates them, but they remain in there. If somebody starts behind, they stay behind, forever. And while there are some who are fair-minded, many are not. So such a person is in a lose-lose situation. Those with bias will discriminate against them -- and "fair minded individuals" will use take their poor relative performance to inform their prior. Try to compensate for that, and those fair minded individuals use that, too, against them. So "fair-mindedness" leads us to perpetuate discrimination. Which doesn't seem very fair.