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Sure, that's possible, but first we have to look at the skewed input before we look at any problems with higher selection processes. Hell, I even see this worki
by projectileboy 15y ago
Sure, that's possible, but first we have to look at the skewed input before we look at any problems with higher selection processes. Hell, I even see this working shlubbo programming jobs here in Minneapolis - there simply are not many female programmers, or African-American programmers. Until we look at problems in K-12 and college, I don't see that it's meaningful to talk about racism and sexism in the valley.
- thaumaturgy 15y agoHmm. I'm not sure I agree, but I'm still thinking about it. It smells like this approach presupposes that the problem of diversity in tech -- assuming that such a problem exists, which isn't universally agreed-upon -- is rooted in problems in education. Again, I think one of the points of the article is that post-input selection problems can cause selection problems in the input. As a thought experiment, if we imagine a situation in which a particular minority were to believe that, even if they followed the rules of their majority peers, they would still be selected against, then we might also imagine that as a consequence they would actually select against themselves. (For example: I'm terrible at casual party-like get-togethers, so I tend not to go to them, which in turn prevents me from getting any better at them; I'm selecting against myself in this situation because of an expected problem. Likewise, if I were a woman and an entrepreneur, I might not attend certain events because I believed in advance that I wouldn't do well there.) I'm not at all arguing that this is actually the case. But, I don't think that limiting ourselves to looking at problems in education is taking a complete enough approach to the overall problem.