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by richmarr 9y ago
> I'm interested in lager studies, especially longer term. I am also interested in lager studies
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by richmarr 9y ago
> "Argentine authorities are scrambling to find a three-decade-old submarine..." 30 years doesn't seem that old for a submarine. A good proportion of the UK fleet were launched in the 80s. What age does the US start deco
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Brexit: The Russian Job(byline.com)
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by richmarr 9y ago
> You lost all your credibility with one sentence. Congratulations. Can you explain the basis for that opinion?
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Channels... I remember those.
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I take your point that they're time constrained, but I dispute the implication that a differently proportioned team may make different decisions. That's an assumption that goes against the balance of evidence.
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by richmarr 9y ago
It reminds me of the surprisingly-high proportion of content available without subtitles/captions. It's 2017 and plenty of people are deaf, and yet the BBC, Netflix, Amazon, etc. regularly pretend this section of their audience do
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by richmarr 9y ago
So you're saying things are so bad anyway that this one vulnerability probably doesn't make any difference? This interpretation of "you're being overly paranoid" is new to me ;)
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by richmarr 9y ago
> Because you are not acting in good faith. I'm sorry, ad hominem attacks are the sign of a debate that's over. Bye.
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by richmarr 9y ago
Sure, publishing bias exists, as does confirmation bias (on both sides of any debate). Those biases do have an effect, and 'social scientists' do tend to be left-leaning in my experience. But, those people have done the work, us
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by richmarr 9y ago
[Just to address the other points you raise because I was in a rush last time] > I have yet to see any convincing studies despite it being straightforward to test in small repeatable experiments. If these experiments are so "strai
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by richmarr 9y ago
> must be good to live in such a simple world where you can expect to bring a study about gender biases into a discussion about diversity studies and have it prove or explain anything As I'm sure would be clear to you if you stopp
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by richmarr 9y ago
> That must be because your studies have glaring methodology defects... How delightful it would be to live in such a simple world. Here's a study for you: Handley, Browna, Moss-Racusinc, and Smith (2015) found that men are more li
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by richmarr 9y ago
> That is what happens when you present weak evidence. In a perfectly rational world you would be right. That's not where we live though, is it.
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by richmarr 9y ago
You're right, it was a little condescending, I was irritated by the way hueving minimised the evidence without apparently knowing anything about it. (I'm sorry, hueving, that was immature of me.) wanderer2323, I used to cite studi
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by richmarr 9y ago
We’re hiring a generalist web dev if anyone in London is looking for something early-stage. We’re working on making hiring less awful, with the dual goal of increasing company performance and reducing structural inequality. We have funding,
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by richmarr 9y ago
> Are there? Yes. > Diversity defined how? Depends on the study. Usually gender or race. > Repeatable experiments or statistical analysis of groups of companies? Depends on the study. See my other comments in this thread. &gt
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by richmarr 9y ago
I have to confess I don't follow a lot of your comment, but I wouldn't describe whether writing tests (or not) as diversity.
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by richmarr 9y ago
I've addressed this in a bit more detail in other comments, if you need more you're welcome to look into it.
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I'm not sure your hypothetical is as clear cut as you think it is. > ... be very diverse? Certainly. Very diverse? Okay, for the sake of your hypothetical let's assume that this antifa member has a different educational and
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by richmarr 9y ago
> Just because there were a few flawed studies is hardly a reason to take it as actionable information. It's interesting that you (someone apparently unaware of the work in this area) is reducing my "a fair number" as &q
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by richmarr 9y ago
> Cultural fit getting a lot of flack these days for reinforcing unconscious bias is hardly proven fact Talking about things as a "proven fact" (or not) is not a helpful mental model. It's an impossibly high burden of pr
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by richmarr 9y ago
Absolutely. I'm not going to name or link, but this is a service we've started providing and have a growing library of assessment techniques (and analytics on the effectiveness of those techniques). This reduces the prep-work requ
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by richmarr 9y ago
Agreed. Work samples are the most predictive form of assessment, you just need to be able to isolate them from other factors such as confidence bias... i.e. no whiteboard interviews (unless hiring for someone whose job it will be to solve p
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by richmarr 9y ago
We run an early stage applicant tracking system and see ourselves broadly as a rejection engine. Something like 95% of the activity on our system relates to candidates who end up being rejected. Since our assessment data is structured our c
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by richmarr 9y ago
That prompts two questions for me if you don't mind sharing. (a) How do you define and assess "culture fit", and why? (b) How do you know the things you're optimising for are actually good proxies for productivity? Appre
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by richmarr 9y ago
Yes, I get that. If you re-read my comment you'll see that I didn't suggest you don't think there's a genuine problem. My point was that people in general seem to frame situations in a way that causes them the least co
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by richmarr 9y ago
> There's no "only" implied in "it's a problem in the tech industry". In my opinion lots of folks tend to infer the "only" because it helps them avoid uncomfortable thoughts. A similar example is
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by richmarr 9y ago
> 7 billion people in the world. 1 million startups would mean 7000 people per startup. Yes I think millions sounds right. You may be right that there are millions of startups, but this particular test seems a little... speculative.
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by richmarr 9y ago
> > Does this mean that a web server written in node is running single-threaded? > Yes. Just to expand, this (like most things) is a simplification, as I'm sure nitely is just being too brief to explain. It's true for Hel

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