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Any thoughts on the risk of a change in "demographics"? It seems like one of the coolest things about Hacker School is the diversity of people. If the motivatio
by subsystem 13y ago
Any thoughts on the risk of a change in "demographics"? It seems like one of the coolest things about Hacker School is the diversity of people. If the motivation for applying changes and/or it gets a lot harder to get in, there could be a big change in at least the applicant pool. Not necessarily for the worse, but still a change.
- davidbalbert 13y agoI don't know enough to say if this will change the demographics of Hacker School. We'll presumably get a higher percent of applicants who know who Peter Norvig is than we've gotten before, but I don't think that's going to be the dominant factor. The best tool we have to affect the demographics of Hacker School is outreach to specific groups, which we do a fair amount of via mailing lists, events, meetups, etc. I have a hunch that any demographic shifts from news like this will be more than offset by any active outreach work that we do.