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> if you took the assumption that black people are innately less interested in tech as true. Or maybe more interested but much more discriminated. The point is
by xondono 5y ago
> if you took the assumption that black people are innately less interested in tech as true.
Or maybe more interested but much more discriminated. The point is that you can’t see equality of opportunity by looking at the output.
- whimsicalism 5y agoI think a good baseline is similar levels of innate interest. The fact that the output is so skewed seems to logically suggest some issue with equality of opportunity?
- sokoloff 5y agoI agree it suggests that possibility. Now what? IMO, you have to look deeper to try to understand the drivers of the suggested inequality for fixing the drivers is what fixes the system. What are the filters or moments that create skew between interest and eventual accomplishment? How do we remove/reduce them?
- whimsicalism 5y agoOh I absolutely agree that you have to look deeper to understand the drivers. I also agree that many of the drivers are from far before any candidate hits the hiring pipeline or anything like that. But given that in this thread there are lots of people denying that this is even suggestive of a problem, I can also see the merit in collecting the information just to demonstrate that a problem even exists - it is hard to get buy-in among people who do not believe that race should be discussed in the 21st century.
- MonaroVXR 5y ago>but much more discriminated. This right here.