ghort

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   by ghort 9y ago

   I don't think it's a trivial difference. Lowering the bar suggest that people are now being accepted on lesser merits. But a false negative is a binary condition. Both positive and false negative results are over the bar. False ne
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   by ghort 9y ago

   Guess people didn't get it. It's not believable to claim to want to correct biases when you want to remove measures that correct biases. Even more ironic is using much of the paper to argue differences between men and women just t
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   by ghort 9y ago

   > The initiatives that the author links to in this section are presumably aimed at reducing the false negative rate for women, and thereby lowering the bar that women need to clear to get hired. You (he) can't say that you are lower
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   by ghort 9y ago

   > he believes that biases should be corrected So he believes in decreasing the false negative rate? I'm confused.
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   by ghort 9y ago

   I don't think people necessarily understand which career they choose. When girl wants to become ballerinas it is presumably because they have some idea that it is glamorous, not that it entails working hard under strict discipline for
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   by ghort 9y ago

   Not sure what you are saying. It is the first amendment that grants the right to fire people you don't agree with. So presumably not everyone agrees on what free speech is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amend