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by spangry 6y ago
That would certainly upset one of my preconceived notions about this whole affair. Could you provide a source on that?
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by spangry 6y ago
So, because the cause is uncertain, we should not discuss female under-representation in software development at all?
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by spangry 6y ago
Sure, and that's not an argument I'd make. But, as Damore suggested in his memo, mightn't these innate differences mean that women are less likely, on average, to prefer careers in software engineering? And mightn't thes
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by spangry 6y ago
> but they're particularly off putting to women. This is the crux of the issue. For this to be true, it must also be true that men and women are, at least in some ways, intrinsically different (otherwise why would these things pose
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by spangry 6y ago
If making a mess is what gets you fired, shouldn't google have gone after whoever leaked the memo, instead of Damore?
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by spangry 6y ago
What country is this? In my country (Australia), the percentage of licensed female architects is around 20%, and this percentage seems to be about the same in the USA and UK. Europe seems a little better with around 30% female representatio
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by spangry 6y ago
Quite so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Ge... "A study of gender differences in 55 nations using the Big Five Inventory found that women tended to be somewhat higher than men in neuroti
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by spangry 6y ago
I found the xenophobia thing quite interesting : "In addition, the behavioral immune system appears to contribute to xenophobia and ethnocentrism. One implication is that these prejudices tend to be exaggerated under conditions in whic
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by spangry 7y ago
Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVDPVBZF2Xg
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by spangry 7y ago
Here's an interesting reference (viruses): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030438941... And more generally (bacteria): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_
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by spangry 7y ago
The original was about quantitative easing: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/781/373/b1e...
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by spangry 7y ago
8chan
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Spying on the Scammers – BBC Stories(youtube.com)
2 points by spangry 7y ago|0 comments
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by spangry 7y ago
Why trust the authors of rationalwiki over the author of those Quillette articles? As you yourself asked: Who is more credible? How are we sure which one is? Perhaps nothing is knowable, and you should never believe anyone about anything ev
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by spangry 7y ago
There are a number of things you could do. You could look for corroborating accounts. For example (note these are a three part series written by the same person): https://quillette.com/2019/02/17/a-witch-hunt-
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by spangry 7y ago
I agree that these folks are probably acting with good intentions. And that can actually make the situation worse. This CS Lewis quote comes to mind: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be t
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by spangry 7y ago
> ...very human tendency to chafe at any perceived condescension. > If people in the US primarily voted the issues (that matter and affect them) instead of on the basis of nonsense, Democrats would win by a landslide. > The real fo
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by spangry 7y ago
I'm trying to figure out the appropriate discount rate and methodology that governments should use when doing cost-benefit analysis of big expenditure projects (e.g. infrastructure). It would seem that economists have been arguing abou
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by spangry 7y ago
I hate it when governments do this, and they seem to do it a lot. The socially optimal price is the marginal cost of providing the service. In this case, the marginal cost is essentially 0 so the search should be free. They're leaving
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by spangry 7y ago
Genuinely curious, what is "the Chinese way"?
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by spangry 7y ago
If you read the sentence before the one you very selectively quoted, or even just completed the very sentence you quoted, it becomes clear the sentence is talking about the US presidential election, not the German one: "That’s a paltry
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by spangry 7y ago
Why do you find this story scary? It seems like a sensible way for a political party to get votes: profile your current supporters, find other people who fit that profile, convince those people to vote for you too. As for Russian interferen
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by spangry 7y ago
You'd think it would be fairly easy to control for population density. However the study abstract indicates the only other confounding variable they controlled for was 'temperature'. EDIT: And the link between cities and high
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Birthplaces of Software Developers in U.S.(econdataus.com)
19 points by spangry 7y ago|6 comments
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by spangry 7y ago
I'm curious, how far does your belief in freedom of association extend? Should a business be allowed to refuse service to someone because they are black, for example? Does your answer change depending of whether that business has many
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by spangry 7y ago
Won't this just make Twitter even more of an echo chamber?
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by spangry 7y ago
Very interesting. Here is a list of the 5 articles from that discussion: · Johnson, Brian D., Eric A. Stewart, Justin Pickett, and Marc Gertz. (2011) Ethnic threat and social control: Examining public support for judicial use of ethnicity i
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by spangry 7y ago
It's quite shocking that the editor in chief of the 'Criminology' journal seems unconcerned about papers in his journal that rely on fabricated data. It calls into question the veracity of all papers published in his journal.
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by spangry 7y ago
White liberals have strongly negative in-group bias: https://www.tabletmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/AA2.jpg
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by spangry 7y ago
Just to add to your point, per unit subsidies can also cause negative prices.

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