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by kaitai 10y ago
Yep. You can read more about these things at Ask A Manager (askamanager.com) and a continuous theme is that everyone is scared of wrongful termination, but that's really quite rare in the US. It involves breach of employment contract.
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by kaitai 10y ago
Asking the students wouldn't help -- very few of us are aware of our unconscious beliefs, especially since they are often in conflict with our conscious beliefs. Asking the students might be an interesting side project on awareness amo
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by kaitai 10y ago
When investigating the intersection of unconscious attitudes (often shaped by culture) and performance, gender is more relevant than sex. It's not whether you have this equipment or that but what groups you are perceived to belong to a
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by kaitai 10y ago
That's the super-interesting thing about stereotype-threat-related studies -- they're all extraordinarily culture-dependent, because they're all about subtle cultural attitudes. Repeating this in other places would be interes
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by kaitai 10y ago
But to stretch my analogy, very few people live in the living room only. Classes, academic activities, sports teams, your dorm where an evangelical pro-lifer is stuck with a girl who already had an abortion in one room and where a gay farme
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by kaitai 10y ago
At many schools, "safe spaces" are designated by clubs sponsored by the university that meet in university-owned space in a building designated for student activities. That seems appropriate. Classrooms, by contrast, should be pro
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by kaitai 10y ago
Agreed!
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by kaitai 10y ago
I don't think slavery was about making people feel bad if they didn't work outside your "agreed working hours", unless you mean whipping or beating them until they feel really bad. A more nuanced discussion of what you s
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by kaitai 10y ago
Part of the problem, though, is on the other side: if a student says, "This (action) causes harm to members of these groups in this way," that student is using words to start a discussion about the topic at hand. It seems that man
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Rape is a common one.
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by kaitai 10y ago
It doesn't look like Bloomberg knows what he's talking about. We all need safe spaces and many of us have them. My living room is a fine example -- it's a place where I can moderate the amount of s*(^ I get, and it's use
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by kaitai 11y ago
Redlining is part of the immense capital transfer from blacks to hashtag-not-all-whites that America is famous for. Understanding this capital transfer is useful in considering why economic inequality persists today -- and you can certainly
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by kaitai 11y ago
Sounds like he didn't get a mortgage. Again, why are you taking this personally or as an attack on your character?
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As you are happy to point out, no one asked me to :)
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by kaitai 11y ago
Gotta agree. You don't have to be a racist to benefit from racism; just look at the Federal Housing Administrations redlining policies and look at the great rates on home mortgages your grandparents got (if they're white Americans
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by kaitai 11y ago
Lots of people don't really think the Romani are white, frankly. But as generations of "white" Americans have learned, if you dress from the JC Penney or Sears catalogue, forbid your children from learning their ancestral lan
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by kaitai 11y ago
But the discussion is trying to be about a different topic, which is why the earlier poster is asking for different language. It's not about having any privileges in terms of money or education, at all. It's about what people say
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by kaitai 11y ago
No, the poster you are responding to is absolutely right -- we need a better language for this thing we are talking about today. You again are getting all hung up on wine and roses (things being good ) when that's not what is being di
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by kaitai 11y ago
Thanks for the further discussion. Definitely makes sense for the seller.
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by kaitai 11y ago
I am a bit surprised that the article doesn't have any introspection about knowing the market (or not). It seems like the reasoning was: we want some money; women have money; women buy clothes; let's do fashion. It doesn't se
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by kaitai 11y ago
Because people only talked about my clothes, not math, if I wore a dress to grad school. Now that I don't get asked if it's laundry day or why I'm wearing that or if I have a date or what special event is happening, and I don
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by kaitai 11y ago
It's not really about egalitarianism per se, it's about what roles women are expected/allowed to take, and what roles men are expected/allowed to take. The decision that engineering or programming is a "male" r
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by kaitai 11y ago
I have to say that while the Scandinavian countries are seen as bastions of gender equality, my personal experience has shown some extraordinary sexism there in academia, far far far more than I've ever experienced in mathematics or ph
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by kaitai 11y ago
The American Dream of success is different. In the US, for various reasons (probably including mobility & lack of local extended family) part of the dream is to have Mom stay home with Kids while Dad works 40 hrs/week to afford the
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by kaitai 11y ago
That's not the whole story. 1) America has always had a fascination for the new rich. Rags to riches is the old story. In pop culture, there are entire romance book series about new rich Americans going back to England to find titled
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by kaitai 11y ago
Yep. One benefit of the HMC notes over Paul's is that the HMC notes have more visualizations. I thought the linear algebra portion of the HMC notes (change of basis, eigenstuff) was especially useful for learners as a counterpoint to m
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by kaitai 11y ago
He did have linear algebra notes at one time but took them down, I believe. Agreed -- I'd love to have those!
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by kaitai 11y ago
I suggest big parts of Paul's Online Notes to students who need some brush-up or remediation. When I was teaching college precalc, for instance, people usually had a reasonable grasp of y=mx+b but difficulties with exponentiation were
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by kaitai 11y ago
I don't honestly see anything not nice in what you said (and I've learned as a Midwesterner nice is very important to me). You didn't insult anyone, there isn't condescension dripping from the comment, you didn't tr
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by kaitai 11y ago
That's real bravery. As a prof, I meet so few students who are willing to back the the very bottom of what they don't understand and work up from there. It's not what we're taught to do. How many of us have skated on ove

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