calex

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by calex 10y ago
>Maybe you didn't intend to make the claim, but it's a claim you made ... You did not make that claim You sound like a bad politician here. All I said is that GIRLS don't take AP CS and do not go to coding summer camp. The
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by calex 10y ago
>OP claimed most "most men _______." I did NOT, you are misquoting me. I claimed (and cited) that OF the people who take AP CS and have the other resources I mentioned, most are men. That is all I claimed and you are all over t
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by calex 10y ago
YES, this is exactly what I meant. Thank you for not misunderstanding me.
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by calex 10y ago
>I know it's hard to believe, but women don't usually get sent to coding summer camp as teenagers. Our parents don't usually encourage us to take AP computer science, and our best friends aren't in CS and don't r
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by calex 10y ago
I never said anything about "all" or "most" men. I have no idea why everyone is replying as if I did. Everything I said is super general and is backed up with data. Good for you for pulling it together. Seriously. I went
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by calex 10y ago
Oh great, more anecdotes in this thread. There are the cold hard facts, you know: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/01/techs-g... >"It's already too late," Paul Graham,
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by calex 10y ago
Reading the comments on articles like this on hacker news always make me deeply uncomfortable to be a woman in tech. I know it's hard to believe, but women don't usually get sent to coding summer camp as teenagers. Our parents don