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by davorak 13y ago
> I already repeated multiple times what claim I find ordinary: that Mudd is somehow able to retain so many female CS majors simply by accepting more. It is up to you to prove that they are able to do this otherwise. State your predictio
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by davorak 13y ago
> You prefer 50/50 but you have no evidence to even suggest that this is the "best" distribution for CS let alone any other major. 50/50 is the default with out additional information. Again I am not trying to stateme
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by davorak 13y ago
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The burden of proof lies with you, not with me. You will have to explain what claim you find extraordinary and what specific evidence you would find convincing for me to consider doi
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by davorak 13y ago
> I don't know why you assume that 50/50 is the desired ratio when acceptance is supposed to be self-selected and merit based. I was not trying to communicate my desire. Rather what is optimal? I need strong evidence to operate
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by davorak 13y ago
> I never brought up the argument that males are smarter than females. I was not implying you did. IQ is one well know metric but others such as "a general subject", as I asked for before, are welcome as well. I asked for solid
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by davorak 13y ago
Is there solid evidence of an IQ difference between the genders or a general subject, with a biological understanding of why such a difference exists? I currently have not come across any such solid evidence and biological understanding. Se
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by davorak 13y ago
> I don't follow this argument. You are suggesting that the rate of females leaving the major/school is exactly proportional to the grade they get. The percentage of females normal drops year by year in the CS programs I am fam
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by davorak 13y ago
Article at nature website: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131008/ncomms3554/full/nco... Scroll through the figures here: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131008/nc
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by davorak 13y ago
There is considerable more value in running a world premier service then the amount of money it brings in as well.
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by davorak 13y ago
Ok what do you do after that secret court? Is there another higher secret court or would the next step be the supreme court?
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by davorak 13y ago
A program erasing the current cultural bias/momentum against females will make a difference to all the females who will not have to face said momentum/bias.
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by davorak 13y ago
> Note that if acceptance rate is a murky statistic, then using underrepresentation to prove discrimination might be even murkier, If it was an isolated incident then yes. The gender difference in engineering/science and in this cas
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by davorak 13y ago
The 48 percent statistic is for the junior year, the third year. It seems like your argument would require Mudd to grade females more lightly for the at least the first three years. This seems unlikely since it would require some form of c
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by davorak 13y ago
Is there solid evidence of an IQ difference between the genders or a general subject, with a biological understanding of why such a difference exists? I currently have not come across any such solid evidence and biological understanding.
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by davorak 13y ago
In my lay observations most universities have a problem with females transferring out in the first two years. So it can across as impressive to me that they had such an even split in the 3rd year of classes. The program has only been going
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by davorak 13y ago
Those statistics are for the entire University. The statistic they gave was 48 percent female in the junior CS class. Most Universities seem to have problems with females transferring out in the first two years. So it does not seem the init
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by davorak 13y ago
> I suppose the same stands for every field though. That is not my understanding/observation, some fields seem to be considerably worse then others, while some seem to have relatively little.
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by davorak 13y ago
Yes I have seen it in the last year or two at science conferences.
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by davorak 13y ago
That is the part that does not make sense, it does not seem like it would take little to any editorial effort to just reprint the book. Page numbers changing from 33 to 53 as in the OP's case make it seem effort was made but not follow
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by davorak 13y ago
Half a dozen is pretty easy to hit when you have such a wide variety of people readying your post online. What would be the percentage threshold be?
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by davorak 13y ago
It loaded pretty quickly for me, but it is probably not under heavy load any more. The page is smoothly scrolling now.
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by davorak 13y ago
Thanks, also of interest might be the overview notes for section 49: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/notes/division/6... However after reading about section 49 for the last few minutes I
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by davorak 13y ago
You make it sound like they could demand that I access the encrypted content on a random third party and put me in jail for not coming up with mathematical break through needed to decrypted the data without the passphrase. I doubt the law i
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by davorak 13y ago
Groklaw never claimed it depended on anonymous tips. They claimed that it in general changes how people communicate and that the author is just as uncomfortable with an unauthorized person going through their email as if they were going thr
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by davorak 13y ago
> 1)Groklaw doesnt' depend on anonymous tips. The site could simply put up a huge disclosure statement on a web form that THE NSA might get what you say. Or not accept tips except via public comments but still operate. I dont think
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by davorak 13y ago
> but black holes can suck in matter by becoming arbitarily more dense. This isn't possible for such sinkholes Correct but this is not the behavior which the sinkholes are mimicking. With out having read the article the behavior tha
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by davorak 13y ago
I thought they were able, but only in they used an embedded webview like some IOS apps. So possible just not 100% native code like microsoft wanted. Is there no equivalent to embedded webivew for native windows phones?
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by davorak 13y ago
> which also didn't show ads. But should respect content owners preference for where and how their videos are shown.
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by davorak 13y ago
> Blocking on this basis alone is a double standard from Google. As others have pointed out, the iOS app developed by Apple never showed ads, even if the videos were monetized. Google never unilaterally revoked Apple's API access ov
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by davorak 13y ago
What I took away from chasing post was a distast for articles like the linked that describe sociopathy more often in terms considered positive. Traits such as charming, compared to the negative traits such as anti-social, harder to form per

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