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This is a misleading title that spins the truth into fodder for a flame war. The survey asks for teachers to explain the barriers that prevent various specific
by notsound 4y ago
This is a misleading title that spins the truth into fodder for a flame war. The survey asks for teachers to explain the barriers that prevent various specific marginalized groups from engaging in CS. Almost everyone can agree that STEM needs more diversity (including the posts author!).
Also, “all but” is misleading. The question[0] includes more groups than women and minorities. It also includes low income/English language learners.
Additionally, I cannot (without potentially messing with their data) review the rest of the surveys questions. After clicking the link to the survey, I was redirected to twitter, than a survey page. This survey page required me to be an teacher. I am not a teacher. It also offered compensation (not a small amount).
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- cato_the_elder 4y agoThe survey uses the word "Latinx" to refer to Latinos. That's a neologism despised by many of them. [1] So, the rest of the survey is probably pretty woke too. Also, they've refer to girls as a "historically underrepresented in computer science". You could argue that it's not quite accurate. [2] [1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1285916 https://www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1285916 [2]: https://psmag.com/.amp/economics/happened-women-computer-science-98057 https://psmag.com/.amp/economics/happened-women-computer-sci...