UnGravitas

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   by UnGravitas 12y ago

   The argument isn't that anyone who beats the market is a lucky unicorn, it's that you can't tell if they're a lucky unicorn or not. Beliefs about beating the market aren't really relevant, the argument would be the
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   by UnGravitas 12y ago

   Replace "boy" or "son" with child and the only paragraph in the article which reads differently is this >Statistically speaking, boys now lag behind girls on every single academic measure; they also get in trouble and
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   by UnGravitas 12y ago

   I always find this parody amusing and educational when discussing the "is a default gendered pronoun sexist?" thing. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
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   by UnGravitas 12y ago

   Thanks for highlighting this, it was an interesting read if a little long. For those without much time probably the most interesting part is "Massaging the Numbers: Pinker’s Non-Proofs of Long-Term Violence Reduction".
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   by UnGravitas 12y ago

   Linked to directly from the article: 1. http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#overall 2. http://www.ncwit.org/blog/did-you-know-demographics-technica...
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   by UnGravitas 12y ago

   I'm not sure if we read the same article, there seem to be several critiques: 1. Silicon valley imagines itself to be a meritocracy which is a harmful belief as this is not actually the case. 2. The pipeline problem is not the entirety