ingleswood

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by ingleswood 5y ago
I mean I agree with you that it was wrong to use the word 'rednecks' to refer to people protesting at the Capitol. However this doesn't seem at all to be an example of what the other poster claimed, of people who loudly objec
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by ingleswood 5y ago
So if the police escalate a situation and shoot someone who is not a violent criminal, because he is black and therefore more likely (from the police officer's point of view) to be a violent criminal than a white person in the same s
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by ingleswood 5y ago
This is far too simplistic. There are well studied phenomena by which people apply bias along the following lines (an arbitrary example chosen): 1. I believe a stereotype that Swedish people are more friendly than Scottish people. 2. I know
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by ingleswood 5y ago
Interesting that you are claiming both that people making hiring decisions are not biased along class lines and that any such bias would be rational and based on ability.
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by ingleswood 5y ago
My point is that the 'average employee', as compared to the 'median employee', is probably distorted much less than 'average shareholder' compared to 'median shareholder'. Therefore I don't agree
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by ingleswood 5y ago
The right tail of Amazon shareholders' wealth is much longer than the right tail of Amazon employees' wealth, since it includes the richest (and 21st richest) person in the world. The best paid employee in the world probably doesn
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by ingleswood 5y ago
That isn't a good thought experiment. Unconscious biases are likely to have much more effect in ambiguous situations where it's harder to try to understand someone's motivations or how to react, than in a situation where thos
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by ingleswood 5y ago
> Another perspective is that a lot of bias isn't "I don't like X people", but rather "I feel X people are disproportionately Y, and I don't like Y" Of course. But the answer to this depends on: 1. the
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by ingleswood 5y ago
Isn't the existence in a more realistic hiring process of a huge weight of objective and reasonable criteria an unjustified, unlikely and politically subjective assumption? Given that one small element of interview presentation has bee
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by ingleswood 5y ago
Do you believe that being black or white has no impact? If not, then racism and white privilege are real things that exist. The presence of other forms of discrimination and oppression does not change this.
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by ingleswood 5y ago
Reading the thread shows a very different story to the one in the GGP. Another poster describes the Capitol riot as a "day-out for rednecks". You say "there aren't many rednecks in San Diego" and the other poster re
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by ingleswood 5y ago
Do you have a hypothetical explanation for why, if people are only allowed to evaluate speech and accent, they prefer a certain group, but if allowed to evaluate lots of different more meaningful things, which all lead to the same conclusi
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by ingleswood 5y ago
> The solution was to allow background checks again. I'm not sure this learning shows what you think it does, nor that the 'solution' is really a solution. Employers don't want to hire black people because they fear t
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by ingleswood 5y ago
Suppose your prior on whether or not there was communication between the Roman-era Mediterranean and America is 50-50. What's more likely, pineapples were known in ancient Rome but there's only a single picture of one ever where t