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I think I misunderstand what you mean by "preference". Take as example a company where 90% of the programmer applicants are male. As I understand the word "pr
by cellularmitosis 14y ago
I think I misunderstand what you mean by "preference".
Take as example a company where 90% of the programmer applicants are male. As I understand the word "preference", a resulting workforce of 90% males would indicate no preference one way or the other (assuming the men and women were equally skilled).
Further, a 91% male workforce would be evidence of a male preference, while an 89% male workforce evidence of a female preference.
Is that what you mean by "preference"?
- Cushman 14y agoYeah, obviously a lot of people misunderstood that. I apologize for the confusion. I was using "preference" in a more generic complex-systems-analysis sense. We begin with a potential workforce, at birth, of half men and half women. Over time, the further you go into the industry, you see more and more men and fewer and fewer women. The women are being rejected, the men are being selected for, this demonstrates a preference. Again, not imputing any consciousness here, it's just what the system is doing. The claim we are asked to accept is that this reflects a something real and measurable, such as my transportation preference for cars over horses, rather than something subjective and arbitrary, such as my berry preference for blueberries over strawberries.